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accelerated critical illness

accelerated critical illness noun: insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on either the death or diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on healthy survival to the end of the term.

Noun

accelerated critical illness (uncountable)

  1. Insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on either the death or diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on healthy survival to the end of the term.

Origin of accelerated critical illness

On the assumption that any illness covered by the critical illness portion of the insurance is potentially terminal, this is equivalent to a term assurance contract whose benefit payment is brought forward (accelerated) to the point of diagnosis of terminal illness, rather than waiting for actual death.

Questions about accelerated critical illness

What does accelerated critical illness mean?
Accelerated critical illness means insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit on either the death or diagnosis of a serious (life-threatening) illness in the life assured within the term of the policy, and nothing on healthy survival to the end of the term.
What part of speech is accelerated critical illness?
Accelerated critical illness is a noun.

Words near accelerated critical illness in the dictionary

  1. acceleratable
  2. accelerate
  3. accelerated
  4. accelerated ageing
  5. accelerated aging
  6. accelerated critical illness
  7. accelerated depreciation
  8. accelerated dragon
  9. accelerated dragons
  10. accelerated erosion
  11. accelerated freefall

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