Associations to the word «Underwriter»

Wiktionary

UNDERWRITER, noun. An entity assuming a financial risk.
UNDERWRITER, noun. A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
UNDERWRITER, noun. (finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.

Dictionary definition

UNDERWRITER, noun. A banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities.
UNDERWRITER, noun. An agent who sells insurance.
UNDERWRITER, noun. A financial institution that sells insurance.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats