The act of providing or paying an annuity; the arrangement of annual payments.
From annuit (Latin, 'yearly payment') + -ation (suffix forming nouns of action). Describes the process or system of establishing annual payment arrangements.
This financial term is almost extinct from English, replaced by simpler modern words—but it reveals how systematically English speakers once used -ation to nominalize almost any verb.
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