Underwrite vs Undergird - What's the difference?
underwrite | undergird |
To write below or under; subscribe.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name.
To sign; to put one's name to.
To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe.
Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.
To act as an underwriter.
* Marshall
To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of.
To submit to; put up with.
To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
To lend moral support to.
To secure below or underneath.
As verbs the difference between underwrite and undergird
is that underwrite is to write below or under; subscribe while undergird is to strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.underwrite
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Verb
- The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.