What is another word for reversionary?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪvˈɜːʃənəɹi] (IPA)

Reversionary is a word that describes something that will be inherited or reclaimed in the future. Some synonyms for reversionary include future, upcoming, impending, and eventual. Other synonyms include dormant, waiting, and reserved. Reversionary investments are those that involve a transfer of ownership from one party to another after a specific time period. Synonyms for reversionary investment include deferred, postponed, or delayed investments. In legal contexts, reversionary is often used to describe property or assets that will eventually revert to the original owner or heirs. Synonyms for this use include inherited, legacy, or estate.

What are the hypernyms for Reversionary?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Reversionary

No-not even with a reversionary interest in heaven."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
If the former trust went widely astray, perhaps their successors have not exactly kept the line, by advancing the leases to a rack rent: It is worth considering, whether the tenant of an expiring lease, hath not in equity, a kind of reversionary right, which ought to favour him with the refusal of another term, at one third under the value, in houses, and one fourth in land; this would give stability to the title, secure the rents, and cause the lessee more chearfully to improve the premises, which in time would enhance their value, both with regard to property and esteem.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
But let me tell you it requires strong testimony to make one believe that there should live such a consummate fool in the world as would sell his whole reversionary right to a splendid state of some twelve thousand-" "Fifteen at the lowest," broke in Scanlan.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever

Related words: evolutionary biology, reversion in biology, reversion in genetics, reversion of fruit flies, reversionary evolution

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