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insurer

insurer

116 3.5
A company or person who pays for damage to your things
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈsɜːrər/
translation icon : compañía de seguros
  • Before signing the contract, it's important to understand what your insurer covers.
  • health insurers
  • auto insurers
  • private insurers

Not the government, not our insurer, not our employer.

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Examples

  • Managed competition relies on insurers and employers to control the direction of health care reform.

    Academic text (1993)
  • As a consequence, insurers began writing complete pollution exclusions into their new corporate insurance policies.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Because your insurer knows when you have an accident.

  • Once the commissioner's decision is final, an insurer must charge only the approved rate.

    Academic text (2017)
  • I need a report on the car for the insurers.

  • Difficult though setting limits to healthcare is, doctors, insurers, and society must be able to draw the line somewhere.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Most private insurers provide limited, if any, coverage for long-term care in the home.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Accordingly, the insurer was not liable to pay insurance proceeds to the insured as the plaintiff.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Nothing serious, but enough for the city's health insurers to disqualify me.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • What kinds of requirements will Medicaid and other insurers impose for reimbursement in school settings?

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

insurance company
vsinsurer
320 2.8

A business that pays money to people for losses when they pay regular fees

is any business or person that provides these services
underwriter
vsinsurer
  • Specialized
5 7.5

A person or company that checks risk and sells insurance

is a general business or person providing coverage rather than a risk role
insurance firm
vsinsurer
3 3.0

A company that pays people money when something bad happens after they pay for protection

is the broader term that also includes individual providers
insurance underwriter
vsinsurer
  • Specialized
1 6.6

A company that decides whether to accept risks and sells insurance to protect people or businesses

is a more general provider not only focused on assessing risk

How Risky

reinsurer
  • Specialized
1 7.7
underwriter
  • Specialized
5 7.5
insurer
116 3.5
agent
  • Formal
2.8

Surface Forms

insurer singular
insurers plural

Morphology

insurer = insure (transparent) = insure + er

Formed regularly from the verb 'insure' with the agentive suffix '-er' to mean 'one who provides insurance', a derivation B1 learners can readily infer.

Etymology

The word insurer comes from insure, which is related to the simple word sure meaning 'safe' or 'certain'. An insurer is a person or company that promises to pay if something goes wrong, so the origin helps you remember that an insurer makes you more 'sure' by giving protection.