A life insurance policy (usually a universal life insurance policy) in which most of the expense charges occur when the policy owner surrenders the policy or makes cash withdrawals from the policy. Such charges are usually highest in the early policy years and are often eliminated at the end of a certain number of years. See also Front-loaded Policy and Universal Life Insurance.

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