underwrite
Example Sentences
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The clubby Lloyd’s market connects thousands of buyers and sellers of risks daily, with deals struck in a cavernous underwriting room or the nearby bars, thronged by underwriters and brokers every lunchtime.
Argentina is among the world’s largest soybean exporters, and U.S. farm groups asked why the federal government would underwrite a competitor while trimming support for American producers at home.
From Salon
The unavoidable conclusion: Crow has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars underwriting a lifestyle for the Thomases that is unthinkable on the $285,000 annual salary of a Supreme Court justice.
From Los Angeles Times
Beijing is yet to comment, but the idea is that it would then drop its insistence that the multilateral lenders take losses, or "haircuts", on the loans they have provided or underwritten in crisis-hit countries.
From Reuters
“It’s a little bit of a chicken-and-egg problem,” she said — there’s not enough data for lenders to figure out how to underwrite the projects, but without the loans, there’s no way to generate more data.
From Los Angeles Times
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