Insurer: alternatives and connections

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on fore…

Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an…

To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will avera…

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- a…

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.

A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.

An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly c…

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.

An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Compan…

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for…

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts…

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to p…