Crossword clues for adjuster
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adjuster \Ad*just"er\, n.
One who, or that which, adjusts.
an insurance agent who examines claims against personal or property damage insurance policies and makes estimates and recommendations regarding the amount which should be paid to the policyholder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, agent noun in English form from adjust. Insurance sense is from 1830.
Wiktionary
alt. One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "claims adjuster." n. One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "claims adjuster."
WordNet
n. one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement [syn: adjustor, claims adjuster, claims adjustor, claim agent]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "adjuster".
Because the Nickersons, farther along the lane, were expecting an insurance adjuster to call about their boathouse fire, Asey had mentally dismissed the man as the awaited adjuster.
Attitude adjusters, main engine controls, each with one disabling wrong connection.
Fedrik Spens loosened the neck cord of his heavy white toga and reached for the threadlike platinum chain of his tiny adjuster key.
Vera Lipton, one of the claims adjusters for California Fidelity Insurance.
She locked the magnetic soles of her boots onto the skin of the sail while she waited for the hardsuit's atmosphere adjusters to clear out the excess humidity.
The complaisant and contented, the adjusters and compromisers, the advocates and flatters of God, those who shun anxiety and stop their ears against too blatant a truth they had better read something else.
Asparagus Adjusters are the fellows who sell those rope-and-pulley affairs by means of which the Smart Set lower asparagus into their mouths--or rather Francis the footman does it for them, of course.
Finding an adjuster in Brawley who would go out and take a look was almost more trouble than the car was worth.
There was probably a second insurance company, representing the owner of the vehicle she'd hit, and it was always possible that the other claims adjuster had something in his files.
Whether it pays anything helpful is up to the claims adjuster and the lawyers, if it comes to that.
This life-role is as interesting as my former life-role, which was that of a claims adjuster for the Great Northern Insurance Company, a position which compelled me to spend my time amid the debris of our civilization: rumpled fenders, roofless sheds, gutted warehouses, smashed arms and legs.
I had saved very little money, and I took the first halfway decent job I could find, working as an insurance claims adjuster, which gave me $9,000 a year and a free use of a car.
He worked for Butterworth Insurance, which I'd never heard of, and he said he was a claims adjuster, but I thought he was probably an accountant sent out because they didn't want to send anyone more important to a nothing rock like Jefferson.
The search was no more than a token, to satisfy the claims adjuster!
The claims adjuster thinks I had something to do with Odyssey's disappearance.