Definition of viatical

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vi·at·i·cal

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l) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

or vi·at·ic (v-tk) KEY Of or relating to traveling, a road, or a way.
Of or relating to a contractual arrangement in which a business buys life insurance policies from terminally ill patients for a percentage of the face value: a viatical settlement.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin viticus, relating to a journey, from via, road ; see via. Sense 2, from viaticum

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