Another great feature of participating whole life policies is: it is also possible to offset premium payments in later years. With this option, annual dividends are put back into the policy and used to purchase additional amounts of paid-up insurance called paid-up additions.
Mainstream describes what's viewed by most people in a society as normal, like the mainstream view that everyone should get married, move to the suburbs, and have children as soon as they can. Something that's mainstream is conventional, or the usual way of doing things. If you're talking about the mainstream in fashion, you mean the ordinary clothes that most people wear and which is found in all the malls â nothing too weird or outlandish. In the 1600s, mainstream described the prevailing current of a river, with the first recorded use of its meaning of prevailing taste or opinion in 1831.
slab (plural slabs) 1  A large, flat piece of solid material; a solid object that is large and flat. 2  A paving stone; a flagstone. ( 3 Australia) A carton containing twenty-four cans of beer. 4  An outside piece taken from a log or timber when sawing it into boards, planks, etc. 5  A bird, the wryneck. ( 6 nautical) The slack part of a sail.