Insuring and Insurance
actuarial adjective
business involving calculations about risks.
actuary noun
business someone whose job is to calculate the cost of
insurance by examining how often deaths, accidents etc happen.
assurance noun
business British insurance,
especially life insurance.
benefit noun
money or help that an insurance company
gives to you.
broker noun
someone whose job is to organize business
deals for other people, especially a stockbroker
or an insurance broker.
BUPA
British United Provident Association: an
organization that provides private medical insurance in the UK.
collision damage waiver noun
legal insurance that you can buy when you hire a car so that
you do not pay if the car is damaged.
comprehensive adjective
comprehensive insurance is insurance that
pays for every kind of damage or loss, even if you are responsible for it.
contributory adjective
a contributory pension or insurance
arrangement is one that involves payments by workers as well as employers.
cover verb
if an insurance agreement covers a
situation or person, it provides protection against loss for that situation or
person.
cover noun
British an agreement by an insurance company to pay money in a
particular situation or for a particular event, person, or thing. The American
word is coverage.
coverage noun
American the amount and type of protection that an insurance
agreement gives you.
double indemnity noun
legal mainly American a section in a life insurance agreement that says the
insurance company will pay double the amount of money if the person who bought
the insurance dies in an accident rather than because of illness or old age.
EHIC noun
tourism European Health Insurance Card: a card that allows
someone living in the European Union to receive free health treatment in
another European Union country.
endowment policy noun
a type of insurance policy that you pay
money to for an agreed period. At the end of this time, the money that you have
invested is used for paying a large amount of money that you have borrowed,
especially a mortgage .
excess noun
business British an
amount of money that someone has to pay towards the cost of something, when an
insurance company is going to pay the rest of the cost. The usual American word
is deductible.
green card noun
British an insurance document that you need for driving your
car in a foreign country.
health insurance noun
a type of insurance that pays for your
medical treatment when you are ill.
indemnify verb
legal to provide someone with insurance or protection
against injury or loss.
indemnify verb
legal to make a payment to someone who has suffered injury
or loss.
indemnity noun
legal insurance or protection against injury or loss.
indemnity noun
a payment made to someone who has suffered
injury or loss.
insurance noun
an arrangement in which you regularly pay
an insurance company an amount of money so that they will give you money
if something you own is damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or are ill or
injured.
insurance noun
the business of selling insurance to
people.
insurance noun
money that an insurance company agrees to
pay you if something that you own is damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or
are ill or injured.
insurance noun
money that you pay regularly to an
insurance company.
insurance policy noun
an official document containing the
details of the agreement between you and an insurance company.
insurance premium noun
a regular payment made to an insurance
company so that you are protected by insurance.
insure verb
to regularly pay an insurance company an
amount of money so that they will give you money if something that you own is
damaged, lost, or stolen, or if you die or are ill or injured.
insure verb
if an insurance company insures you or
something that you own, they accept money from you and agree to pay you if you
die or are ill or injured, or if something that you own is damaged, lost, or
stolen.
insured adjective
provided with, or protected by, insurance.
the insured adjective
the person that an insurance policy affects.
insurer noun
a person or company that sells insurance.
key-person insurance noun
business an insurance policy intended to pay for replacing a
worker who is very important to an organization.
life assurance noun
British life insurance.
life insurance noun
a type of insurance that pays money to
your family when you die.
Lloyd’s
a British organization that sells
insurance, especially for ships and aircraft. Lloyd’s is sometimes called Lloyd’s
of London.
loss adjuster noun
business British someone
whose job is to calculate how much an insurance company must pay to customers
when they have made a claim on their insurance policy.
mutual adjective
business a mutual insurance company, building society etc is
owned by all of its customers, who share its profits.
National Insurance noun
a system that all employers and workers in
the UK pay into, providing money for people who do not have a job or who are
old or ill.
NI abbreviation
British National Insurance.
no-claims bonus noun
British a reduction in the cost of insurance which you get
when you have not claimed money in previous years for any accident or damage.
policy noun
a contract between an insurance company
and a person or organization.
policyholder noun
business someone who has an insurance policy.
premium noun
an amount of money that you pay regularly
for an insurance policy.
product liability noun
business the duty of a company that makes or sells a product to
pay if their product causes damage or injury.
protect verb
if an insurance policy protects you, it
will pay money to you or your relatives if particular bad things happen.
protection noun
the agreement made by an insurance company
to pay you money if something bad happens to you or your possessions.
reinsurance noun
insurance policies that an insurance
company has so that it will receive money to replace the money that it pays to
its customers.
surrender value noun
the amount of money that you receive from
a life insurance policy if you
decide you want to stop the policy.
third-party adjective
third-party insurance protects you if you
accidentally injure someone or accidentally damage their property.
travel insurance noun
tourism a type of insurance that pays for your medical
treatment if you are ill when you are travelling abroad, or that gives you back
your money if your holiday is cancelled.
underwrite verb
business to protect a company from loss by agreeing to buy any
remaining shares that are not
bought by the public when the shares first become available for sale.
underwrite verb
business to protect someone from loss with an insurance policy.
underwriter noun
a person or company that provides
insurance.
adjuster noun
a good bad risk
a person or company considered according
to how safe it is to lend them money or give them insurance or credit.
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