Tontine is valid Scrabble Word

Is tontine a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is tontine valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for TONTINE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a form of collective life insurance
an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan or common fund, the shares increasing as subscribers die until the last survivor enjoys the whole income.
a scheme for life assurance in which the beneficiaries are those who survive and maintain a policy to the end of a given period.
type of annuity scheme
An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance.
a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members
an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant

Words related to TONTINE

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Words that contain TONTINE

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How to use TONTINE in a sentence

Bulletins were posted at the Tontine, and changed with every new report.
He had never heard of any of these People, because they did not carry Tontine Policies with his Company.
Ninety-seven years later another tontine, or scale of annuities, on the basis of the same expectation of life as in the previous century, was issued.
On the one side, Joseph gave up all that he possessed, and assigned to his nephew his contingent interest in the tontine, already quite a hopeful speculation.
What was yet more to the purpose, he had been all his life a consistent scoffer at the Finsbury tontine.

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