self-insurance

1. 1.

   insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy

   Broaderinsurance

Questions about self-insurance

What does self-insurance mean?

self-insurance means "insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy".

How many syllables are in self-insurance?

self-insurance has 4 syllables and divides as sel-f-in-su-rance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is self-insurance a common word?

self-insurance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.