Noun

(en noun)

One who insures.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(business) A company operating in only one industry or line of business; often specifically a bank specializing in credit card issuance.

*{{quote-book, 2005, David Sparks Evans and Richard Schmalensee, Paying with Plastic citation

, passage=The other leading monolines in 2002 were Capital One and Providian.}}

(finance) An insurer specialized in insuring investment-grade securities against loss.

*{{quote-book, 2005, Charles Austin Stone and Anne Zissu, The Securitization Markets Handbook citation

, passage=The premium charged by the monoline is not for funding expected losses, as with insurance, but for enhancing an investment-grade security to a AAA level.}}

(calligraphy) A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.

*{{quote-book, 1984, Margaret Shepherd, Calligraphy Now citation

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(aquaculture) A length of monofilament line, used for culturing forms of seaweed.

*{{quote-book, 1982, Jose Rodolfo Lim, Farming the Ocean (the Genu Story), page=73 citation

, passage=A module consists of 21 monolines'; a ' monoline on the other hand is 20 feet (6 m) long and consists of a nylon line plus 3 stakes— 2 at both ends and one at the middle— and 30 plants. }}

(printing, dated) A type of composing machine in which each line of type is cast as a single slug.

*{{quote-book, 1993, Rae Frances, The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria 1880-1939, page=126 citation

, passage=With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline , the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work.}}

(spectroscopy) A single spectrum line.

*{{quote-journal, 2007, V.A. Shabashov et al., Deformation-induced transformations in nitride layers formed in bcc iron, Materials Science and Engineering: A, volume=452, pages=575-583, doi=10.1016/j.msea.2006.11.071

, passage=The spectrum of the MS sample also includes the central broad singlet of the nitrous austenite, which is simulated as the superposition of a monoline and a doublet.}}