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Underwrite vs Underwrote - What's the difference?

underwrite | underwrote |

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

  • 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
  • The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.
  • To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of.
  • To submit to; put up with.
  • Derived terms

    * underwriter * underwriting

    underwrote

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (underwrite)
  • English irregular simple past forms