Dictionary

survivorship en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English survivor Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English survivorship From survivor + -ship.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state of being a survivor.
   • We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data. 2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
2. (uncountable, usually) The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
3. (uncountable, usually) A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.

Forms

Deriveds

presumption of survivorship · survivorship bias

Relateds

tenancy (legal right)