Usually means: Higher risk individuals prefer insurance.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. adverse selection: Merriam-Webster
  2. adverse selection: Wiktionary
  3. adverse selection: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. adverse selection: Dictionary.com
  5. Adverse selection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. adverse selection: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Adverse selection: bizterms.net
  3. Adverse selection: Moneyterms
  4. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Adverse Selection: Investopedia
  6. Adverse Selection: Financial dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adverse selection: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (adverse selection)

noun:  (economics, business, insurance) The process by which the price and quantity of goods or services in a given market is altered due to one party having information that the other party cannot have at reasonable cost.

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