Life insurance. Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations), is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money (the benefit) in exchange for a premium, upon the death of an insured person (often the policy holder).
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of sordid is something dirty, squalid or morally distasteful. 1  When someone is living in a filthy apartment with bugs everywhere, this is an example of living in sordid conditions. 2  A morally objectionable pornographic film is an example of a sordid film.
sordid (comparative sordider, superlative sordidest) 1  Dirty or squalid. 2  Morally degrading. 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. 3  Grasping.