tontine

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /tɒnˈtiːn/|/ˈtɒnˌtiːn/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

tontines plural

词源

From French tontine, named after Lorenzo de Tonti, who introduced the scheme into France in around 1653. Thus, from Tonti + -ine.
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