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persistency

 
Dictionary: per·sis·ten·cy   (pər-sĭs'tən-sē) pronunciation
n.
Persistence.


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Insurance Dictionary: Persistency
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Percentage of life insurance or other insurance policies remaining in force; percentage of policies that have not lapsed. The higher the percentage, the greater the persistency. Since it is an important measure of a company's retention of its life insurance business, most companies extend every effort to increase persistency. See also Conservation.

Thesaurus: persistency
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noun

  1. The state or quality of being insistent: insistence, insistency, perseverance, persistence. See continue/stop/pause.
  2. Uninterrupted existence or succession: continuance, continuation, continuity, continuum, duration, endurance, persistence. See continue/stop/pause.

Military Dictionary: persistency
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(DOD, NATO) In biological or chemical warfare, the characteristic of an agent which pertains to the duration of its effectiveness under determined conditions after its dispersal.

WordNet: persistency
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: persistent determination
  Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity


 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Insurance Dictionary. Dictionary of Insurance Terms. Copyright © 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
Military Dictionary. US Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Words, 2003.  Read more
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