: a person who calculates insurance and annuity premiums, reserves, and dividends
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Specifically, the senior casualty actuary performs a wide variety of consultative and analytical assignments associated with aspects of property and casualty insurance rate regulation.—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025 The actuary did so, but about everybody could see that the premium to be charged by the captive for policies were too high and some coverages were not needed by STW or SaniSure.—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Last year, Chicago’s official pension actuary issued a similar warning.—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025 First, a committee made up of medical experts, health-policy and health-economics experts, actuaries, and others—unaffiliated with the AMA and free of conflicts of interest—could reevaluate the few hundred medical codes that account for the lion’s share of medical costs.—Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for actuary
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borrowed from Latin āctuārius "shorthand writer, keeper of accounts," alteration (with -u- from the u-stem action noun āctus) of *āctārius, from āctum "public transaction, record" + -ārius-ary entry 1 — more at act entry 1
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