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Insurance company employee
Answer for the clue "Insurance company employee ", 7 letters:
actuary
Alternative clues for the word actuary
- Schmidt's insurance company job, in "About Schmidt"
- Predictor of deaths
- Risk rater?
- Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)
- Pension consultant
- Statistician of a kind
- Risk calculator
- Person using statistics to calculate insurance premiums
Word definitions for actuary in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "registrar, clerk," from Latin actuarius "copyist, account-keeper," from actus "public business" (see act (n.)). Modern insurance office meaning first recorded 1849.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actuary \Ac"tu*a*ry\, n.; pl. Actuaries . [L. actuarius copyist, clerk, fr. actus, p. p. of agere to do, act.] (Law) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally. The ...
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.