Word Meanings - ASSURER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
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- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - SPECIFICALLY
In a specific manner. - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - POLICY
1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method - ASSURANCE
Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. Note: In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. Blackstone. (more info) 1. The act of - INSURER
One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter. - IMPOLICY
The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley. - MISPOLICY
Wrong policy; impolicy. - REINSURER
One who gives reinsurance. - REASSURANCE
See REINSURANCE (more info) 1. Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne. - TERM POLICY
A policy of term insurance. - VALUED POLICY
A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy. - VALUED-POLICY LAW
A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss. - BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien. - TIME POLICY
A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy. - PREASSURANCE
Previous assurance. Coleridge. - SWEEPSTAKES
The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. 3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. (more