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US
/ˈəndɝˌɹaɪtɝ/
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[ UK /ˌʌndəɹˈaɪtɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌndəɹˈaɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a financial institution that sells insurance
- a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities
- an agent who sells insurance
How To Use underwriter In A Sentence
- The issuing firm can make sure that underwriters compete for its business. Principles of Corporate Finance
- Most, if not all, of the leading fixed-income underwriters have or are developing their own software to conduct online auctions, but few are yet prepared to use it for fear of cannibalizing their existing underwriting business.
- This will be achieved by rebating Underwriters' contribution to costs.
- The lead underwriter of the CDO was a unit of Japan's Mizuho Financial Group Inc. The SEC also is trying to determine if S&P overrode its own internal controls when it continued to assign the deal its highest rating after the actual assets were traded into the deal, these people said. Rating Firms' Asset Game
- It was not something we listed but we spoke to the underwriters and got them covered. The Sun
- The majority of vacancies are for commercial account handlers, underwriters and liability claims.
- John Doyle, CEO of AIG's commercial insurance division, defended the company's business decisions, saying underwriters do not provide coverage if the premium is too low to cover losses.
- Through the quantification of fire risk, underwriters reconceptualized fire in abstract, economic terms, taming it on paper.
- Answer relatively and the right of the underwriter with safe belongings and insurant and obligation coexist.
- Insurance underwriters have given notice that they will cancel war liabilities from midnight on Monday.