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Underwrite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure: underwrite a theatrical production.

v. To sign (an insurance policy) so as to assume liability in case of specified losses.

v. To insure.

v. To insure against losses totaling (a given amount).

v. To guarantee the purchase of (a full issue of stocks or bonds).

v. To agree to buy the unsold part of (stock not yet sold publicly) at a fixed time and price.

v. To write under or at the end of something.

v. To subscribe to, especially to sign or endorse (a document).

v. To support or agree to (a decision, for example).

verb-intransitive. To act as an underwriter, especially to issue an insurance policy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To write below or under; subscribe.

v. To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name.

v. To sign; to put one's name to.

v. To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe.

v. Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.

v. To act as an underwriter.

v. To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of.

v. To submit to; put up with.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To write under something else; to subscribe.

v. To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent.

verb-intransitive. To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To write below or under; subscribe.

To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe.

Specifically To agree or undertake by setting one's name to (a policy of insurance) to become answerable for certain losses specified therein: used chiefly in marine insurance. Hence underwriter.

To submit to; put up with.

To practise insuring, particularly marine insuring; carry on the business of an underwriter.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. guarantee financial support of

v. protect by insurance

Word Usage

"If it is not fully subscribed, they will get all that they have asked for, and the balance left over will be taken up in most cases by a syndicate formed by the bank or firm that issued the loan, to "underwrite" it."

Verb Form

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Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

guarantee undertake

Variant

underwritten underwrote

Form

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