insurancelike

English

Alternative forms

  • insurance-like

Etymology

From insurance +‎ -like.

Adjective

insurancelike (comparative more insurancelike, superlative most insurancelike)

  1. Resembling insurance or insurance policies
    • 2009 January 25, Gretchen Morgenson, “Time to Unravel the Knot of Credit-Default Swaps”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Credit-default swaps are insurancelike contracts that Wall Street created in the early 1990s.
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