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What does underwriter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word underwriter? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. An entity assuming a financial risk.
  2. A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
  3. (finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.
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Discretion, competence and a talent for hand-holding are prized of underwriter and undertaker alike.
Discuss your questions or concerns with an appraiser or a staff underwriter.
The Authority has selected RBC Dominion Securities as its financial advisor and as the lead underwriter for a planned bond financing.
The underwriter also carried out a post-occurrence inclining experiment to establish the vessel's lightship characteristics.
I joined Euler Hermes in London in 1996 as an underwriter after having spent a year with Allianz in Munich.
Rather than denigrating insurers, it would be instructive for Nation readers to hear from an actuary or underwriter.

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