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Underwriter vs Underwrites - What's the difference?

underwriter | underwrites |

As a noun underwriter

is an entity assuming a financial risk.

As a verb underwrites is

third-person singular of underwrite.

underwriter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An entity assuming a financial risk.
  • A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
  • (finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.
  • They were the underwriters of the company's shares, but only on a "best efforts" basis.

    underwrites

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (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