VIATICUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viaticus mean? 

• VIATICUS (noun)
  The noun VIATICUS has 1 sense:

1. purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders

  Familiarity information: VIATICUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIATICUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

viatication; viaticus

Hypernyms ("viaticus" is a kind of...):

buying; purchasing (the act of buying)

Derivation:

viatical (pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders)