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with-profits

with-profits adjective: (originally) Describing a type of insurance policy or investment that pays bonuses linked to the issuing company's profits.

Adjective

with-profits (not comparable)

  1. (originally) Describing a type of insurance policy or investment that pays bonuses linked to the issuing company's profits.
  2. Describing a type of medium- or long-term pooled investment, typically in a mix of assets, whose returns do not derive directly from the investments, but are instead delivered via guaranteed or variable bonuses, through which peaks and troughs of investment performance are "smoothed out" to provide a more consistent (or guaranteed) return over time.

Questions about with-profits

What does with-profits mean?
With-profits means (originally) Describing a type of insurance policy or investment that pays bonuses linked to the issuing company's profits.
What part of speech is with-profits?
With-profits is an adjective.

Words near with-profits in the dictionary

  1. with-holden
  2. with-holding
  3. with-holds
  4. with-it
  5. with-it-ness
  6. with-profits
  7. withafastuosin
  8. withafastuosins
  9. withaferin
  10. withaferins
  11. withal

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