Tontine vs Tokay - What's the difference?
tontine | tokay |
(finance, insurance) A form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 634:
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 237:
A variety of grape grown in eastern Hungary and in eastern Slovakia.
A variety of white wines made from this grape.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 25, author=Eric Asimov, title=Asian Fusion, via the Wine List, work=New York Times
, passage=It was made from the furmint grape, which is better known in Hungary’s lusciously sweet tokays , but this was delicate, floral and just right with a tart chicken curry dish.}}
As nouns the difference between tontine and tokay
is that tontine is (finance|insurance) a form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors while tokay is forest.tontine
English
Noun
(en noun)- there were many speculative schemes which gambled on the expectation of an individual's life, as in the tontine system, whereby all the group's contributions went to the last survivor.
- They were pleasantly high, but in an almost self-conscious way, as if they were members of a tontine blessed by the unexpected death of two or three of its members.
See also
* ("tontine" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
* English eponymstokay
English
Alternative forms
* tokajiNoun
(en noun)citation