Usually means: Assess risk, determine coverage terms.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. underwrite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. underwrite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underwrite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. underwrite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. underwrite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Underwrite, underwrite: Wordnik
  7. underwrite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. underwrite: Wiktionary
  9. underwrite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. underwrite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. underwrite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. underwrite: Dictionary.com
  13. underwrite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. underwrite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Underwrite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Underwrite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. underwrite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. underwrite: Rhymezone
  19. Underwrite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. underwrite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. underwrite: Free Dictionary
  22. underwrite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. underwrite: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. underwrite: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Underwrite: bizterms.net
  7. underwrite: Legal dictionary
  8. underwrite: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underwrite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underwrite: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underwrite: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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