insurance company
320
2.8
- noun
- /ɪnˈʃʊərəns ˈkʌmpəni/
:
aseguradora
- If you have questions about your claim, contact the insurance company directly for assistance.
- insurance companies cover
- insurance companies pay
- clients and insurance companies
I just found an insurance company that will work with me.
- I just found an insurance company that will work with me.
- And so instead of us, oh, I had no idea that the health insurance companies denied claims.
- So we sold that to a syndicate of of insurance companies like Blue Cross, Blue Shield, people like that.
- I am ready to go home but because this story needs another turn, my insurance company will not approve my medicine.
- The firm AIG, which was started by CV Star, was converted into the biggest insurance company in the world by Hank Greenberg.
- But when the insurance company's paying, all bets are off.
- And this is the name of a book that's about how insurance companies get out of claims.
- I don't think that any insurance companies need to worry about it.
- Investment banks, commercial banks, credit unions, insurance companies were destroyed.
- OK, insurance companies, they don't lose money.
- Many years ago I went in to train the Prudential Insurance Company of America, their agents.
- The floodplains Well, I mean, just people won't they just insurance companies are a for profit business.
Examples
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An argument then ensued over who would pay these losses: insurance companies or the state.
Academic text (1991) -
The Ministry and the insurance companies strongly encouraged GPs to adopt and use the system.
Academic text (2011) -
I just found an insurance company that will work with me.
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I thought, oh, you see insurance companies like Capital Insurance as part of this.
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I mean, we could sell it back to the insurance company.
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Few big insurance companies ended up with all the money.
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The insurance company requires them.
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I knew he ran an insurance company and went in daily on its affairs.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm working for this insurance company now.
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He built a lot of businesses here, including a really successful life insurance company.
Synonyms
116
3.5
A company or person who pays for damage to your things
5
7.5
A person or company that checks risk and sells insurance
3
3.0
A company that pays people money when something bad happens after they pay for protection
1
6.6
A company that decides whether to accept risks and sells insurance to protect people or businesses
How Big
15
3.5
320
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company that sells insurance policies' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'insurance' (protection against loss) with 'company' (an organization that provides goods/services). This simple noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward compositional meaning, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The compound insurance company comes from old times when people put small amounts of money together into a common fund to help someone who had a loss. Insurance was this promise of 'help' and company meant the group who looked after the money, so today an insurance company is a business people pay to get protection if something bad happens.