ACTUARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does actuary mean? 

• ACTUARY (noun)
  The noun ACTUARY has 1 sense:

1. someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)

  Familiarity information: ACTUARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTUARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

actuary; statistician

Hypernyms ("actuary" is a kind of...):

calculator; computer; estimator; figurer; reckoner (an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines))

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "actuary"):

surveyor (someone who conducts a statistical survey)

Derivation:

actuarial (of or relating to the work of an actuary)