UNDERWRITER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underwriter mean? 

• UNDERWRITER (noun)
  The noun UNDERWRITER has 3 senses:

1. a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities

2. an agent who sells insurance

3. a financial institution that sells insurance

  Familiarity information: UNDERWRITER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERWRITER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

investment banker; underwriter

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

agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)

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

killer bee (an investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An agent who sells insurance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

general agent; insurance agent; insurance broker; underwriter

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

agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)

Derivation:

underwrite (protect by insurance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A financial institution that sells insurance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

insurance company; insurance firm; insurance underwriter; insurer; underwriter

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

nondepository financial institution (a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance)

Derivation:

underwrite (protect by insurance)

 Context examples 

Then he remembered the underwriters and the owners, the two masters a captain must serve, either of which could and would break him and whose interests were diametrically opposed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)