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Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
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actuary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A developing issue for actuaries has been the question of the possible use of professional certification of reserves for general insurance. ▪ An actuary , assuming no casual connection, might calculate the odds against such a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty . The name of the corresponding profession is actuarial science . These risks can affect both sides of the balance sheet , and require asset management ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated 16th-19th century English) registrar, clerk. 2 A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician ]
Usage examples of actuary.
Administration hospital ward, bleak and white and deathly, badgered by psychiatrists and gerontologists, prodded and tested and questioned by nurses and internes and specialists, a spectacle for visiting officials, newspapermen, article writers, actuaries, lawyers, press agents, theatrical producers, sapped like an old tree torn up by the roots.
He looked like a timid actuary and he was one of the top forensic lab men in the country.
It's not studied much anymore, because most hyperships get where they're going, and the Empire's actuaries believe it's more trouble than it's worth to track lost ships, since they're so few.
This was, in part, because he strove for, and achieved, a certain degree of anonymity in the casinos, dressing and acting the part of an accountant or an actuary on vacation.
When this benighted hole finally introduces adequate sewerage in the poorer quarters, the number of laborers who'll die in the diggings can be predicted -- in round figures, to the nearest ten -- by any experienced actuary or civil engineer.
Names like Ovenstone, Cleugh, and Flockhart, and professions such as actuary, silk merchant, ironmonger.
OR a competent insurance actuary with staff would calculate the commitment and it would show in the National Public Debt.
He directed a staff of actuaries to supply him with approximate figures showing the percentage of under-consumption and its dollar value for the past year.