underwrites in English

verb
1
sign and accept liability under (an insurance policy), thus guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs.
Some are insurance policies, underwritten by insurers; whereas others are written as ‘service contracts’ in order to avoid insurance premium tax.
2
(of a bank or other financial institution) engage to buy all the unsold shares in (an issue of new securities).
In addition, most of the clearing banks underwrite new issues of commercial paper and, like the merchant banks, provide lines of credit to their commercial customers.
3
write (something) below something else, especially other written matter.
verb

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1. 3 The difference between depository institutions and other firms is deposit insurance that underwrites risk taking.

2. Government of India underwrites loans given by banks to small businesses through a trust.

3. But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.

4. Synonyms for Capitalizes include finances, funds, underwrites, bankrolls, stakes, endows, subsidises, subsidizes, backs and obtains

5. The difference between depository institutions and other firms is deposit insurance that underwrites risk taking.

6. De-Arabizing Jerusalem: Biblical “History” Underwrites Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing The reality is that for seven decades Israel has been engaged in the crime of ethnic cleansing.

7. A Ceding insurer is an insurer that underwrites and issues an original, primary policy to an insured and contractually transfers (cedes) a portion of the risk to a reinsurer.

8. Archipelago Insurance Limited underwrites general insurance classes of business and are regarded as the pioneering international insurer of both non-admitted and locally-admitted insurance policies in Asia Pacific

9. Duffer's drift For insight, she turns to the nonfiction and fiction of the Nigerian novelist and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who in Season of Anomy underwrites the Western myth of Orpheus with the