Usually means: Assumes financial risk for compensation.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word underwrites:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. underwrites: Merriam-Webster
  2. underwrites: Collins English Dictionary
  3. underwrites: Vocabulary.com
  4. underwrites: Wordnik
  5. underwrites: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. underwrites: Wiktionary
  7. underwrites: Dictionary.com
  8. underwrites: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. underwrites: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. underwrites: Legal dictionary
  2. underwrites: Financial dictionary

(Note: See underwrite as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (underwrite)

verb:  (transitive) To write below or under; subscribe.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name.
verb:  (transitive) To sign; to put one's name to.
verb:  (transitive) To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe.
verb:  (transitive) Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.
verb:  (intransitive, insurance) To act as an underwriter.
verb:  (transitive) To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To submit to; put up with.
▸ Also see underwrite

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