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tontines

tontines is the plural of tontine.

Meaning of tontine

Noun

tontine (plural tontines)

  1. A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.
    • When Joseph Finsbury and his brother Masterman were little lads in white-frilled trousers, their father—a well-to-do merchant in Cheapside—caused them to join a small but rich tontine of seven-and-thirty lives.1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 1, in The Wrong Box

Questions about tontines

What is tontines the plural of?
Tontines is the plural of tontine.

Words near tontines in the dictionary

  1. tontine
  2. tontineer
  3. tontineers
  4. tontiner
  5. tontiners
  6. tontines
  7. tontinier
  8. tontiniers
  9. tontipop
  10. Tontis
  11. tonto

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