ACTUARY


Meaning of ACTUARY in English

/ ˈæktʃuəri; NAmE -eri/ noun

( pl. -ies ) a person whose job involves calculating insurance risks and payments for insurance companies by studying how frequently accidents, fires, deaths, etc. happen

►  ac·tu·ar·ial / ˌæktʃuˈeəriəl; NAmE -ˈeriəl/ adjective

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WORD ORIGIN

mid 16th cent. (originally denoting a clerk or registrar of a court): from Latin actuarius bookkeeper, from actus event, thing done, act- done, from the verb agere , reinforced by the French noun acte . The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.