Underwrite vs Underwrote - What's the difference?
underwrite | underwrote |
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.
As verbs the difference between underwrite and underwrote
is that underwrite is to write below or under; subscribe while underwrote is simple past of underwrite.underwrite
English
Verb
- The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.