Associations to the word «Underwriter»

Wiktionary

UNDERWRITER, noun. An entity assuming a financial risk.
UNDERWRITER, noun. A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
UNDERWRITER, noun. (finance) An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.

Dictionary definition

UNDERWRITER, noun. A banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities.
UNDERWRITER, noun. An agent who sells insurance.
UNDERWRITER, noun. A financial institution that sells insurance.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope