Word Meanings - UNDERWRITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

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• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• INSURANCE
  1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks.
• MARINERSHIP
  Seamanship. Udalt.
• MARINER
  One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.
• 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
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• MARINED
  Having the lower part of the body like a fish. Crabb.
• INSURER
  One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.
• INSURANCER
  One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• 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.
• FUMARINE
  An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
• TONTINE INSURANCE
  Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the
• REINSURANCE
  1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance. 2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.
• ULTRAMARINE
  Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke.
• TERM INSURANCE
  Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.
• TERM POLICY
  A policy of term insurance.
• SUBMARINE
  Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above
• AMARINE
  A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.
• CUSTOMARINESS
  Quality of being customary.