(group of persons)

  • 1group of persons organized with legal authorization — index posse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 2group home — n. an establishment, usually resembling a private home and located in a residential neighborhood, for providing a small group of persons with special needs, as handicapped or elderly persons, with lodging and supervised care …

    English World dictionary

  • 3group insurance — n: insurance issued upon a group of persons under a single or blanket insurance policy Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. group insurance …

    Law dictionary

  • 4group insurance — group′ insur ance n. bus life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract • Etymology: 1910–15 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 5group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals. [1910 15] * * *       insurance provided to… …

    Universalium

  • 6group insurance — noun insurance that is purchased by a group (such as the employees of a company) usually at a reduced rate to individual members of the group • Hypernyms: ↑insurance * * * noun : insurance issued upon a group of persons under a single or blanket… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 7group annuity — noun : a pension plan providing annuities at retirement for all eligible persons under a single master contract usually issued to an employer for the benefit of employees * * * Insurance. a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 8group annuity — A contract providing annuities for the members of a defined group of persons, usually the employees of a business or industry, or of such part of them as desire to participate and are eligible under the arrangement or plan provided, the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 9group insurance — A contract providing life, accident or health insurance for the members of a defined group of persons, usually the employees of a business or industry, or of such part of them as desire to participate and are eligible under the arrangement or… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 10group — n Group, cluster, bunch, parcel, lot mean a collection or assemblage of persons or of things. Group implies some unifying relationship, however tenuous (as a similarity of activity, of purpose, or of nature), and ordinarily a degree of physical… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms