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survivorship Definition

sur·vi·vor·ship (sər vī′vər s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the state of being a survivor
  2. Law the right of a surviving owner or owners of property held as under joint tenancy to undivided ownership upon the death of either or any of them

survivorship Law Definition

n

The right whereby someone who has an interest in a property becomes entitled to the entire property by virtue of outliving all others with an interest in that property. It is one of the features of joint tenancy. Also, the condition of the one person out of two or more to remain alive after the others die.
survivorship Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • curve: Understand what Ro means, and how to interpret Life Tables and survivorship curves.
  • function: The example plot below shows an observed survivorship function and the fitted Weibull distribution.

Noun used with modifier

  • cancer: Exploring the link between exercise and adult cancer survivorship is a relatively new area of medicine.