actuary
noun /ˈæktʃuəri/
/ˈæktʃueri/
(plural actuaries)
- a person whose job involves calculating insurance risks and payments for insurance companies by studying how frequently accidents, fires, deaths, etc. happenWordfinderTopics Jobsc2
- actuary
- annuity
- cover
- excess
- insurance
- no-claims bonus
- policy
- premium
- risk
- underwrite
Word Originmid 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.