underwriter

Other forms of underwriter

plural

underwriters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about underwriter

What does underwriter mean?

underwriter means "a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underwriter?

underwriter has 4 syllables: un-der-wri-ter. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌɹaɪtɚ/.

What is another word for underwriter?

Close synonyms include investment banker, insurance broker, insurance agent, general agent, insurance company. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is underwriter a common word?

underwriter 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.

What rhymes with underwriter?

7 words rhyme with underwriter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.