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under-inˈsure, v.
[under-1 10 a.]
trans. To insure at less than the real value. Also intr. or absol. Cf. over-insure v.
1911Rep. Labour & Social Conditions in Germany (Tariff Reform League) III. 145 If a person..under⁓insured to avoid the rates he would lose in case of fire. 1921W. N. Bament Co-Insurance 3 The natural inclination..is to under-insure and take the chance of not having a total loss. 1982Economist 18 Sept. 25 The problem is that the less well-off might underinsure.
So under-inˈsured ppl. a. (also absol. as n.).
1893Standard (Boston) 20 May 518/2 The sufferers of slight and partial losses are able..to draw their full damage without reference to the insurance carried, which, in the case of small insurance in proportion to value carried, enables a person who is thus under-insured to draw more than an equitable portion. 1909W. J. Graham Romance of Life Insurance v. 66 Life, the great creator and conservator of the world's wealth, is grossly underinsured when compared with fire insurance. 1912E. R. Hardy in H. P. Dunham Business of Insurance I. x. 179 In case of important properties where mortgage loans have to be protected..all such, although their property may not be subject to any greater loss than the under insured, are paying for the under insured property. 1947P. Gordis How to buy Insurance i. 8 We have established the inadvisability of being under-insured. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship iv. 69 A regular firetrap the whole house. Oh they're wild about it now... Underinsured, that's what it was. 1981M. Duffy Gor Saga ii. 102 He was underinsured... His capital had been in his stock. |