PAs trop sur....

>The business of an underwriter, [1913 Webster]

-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

1. To write under something else; to subscribe. [1913 Webster]

What addition and change I have made I have here
underwritten. --Bp. Sanderson.
[1913 Webster]

2. To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for
marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's
name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of
becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration
of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals,
as well as companies, may underwrite policies of
insurance. --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]

The broker who procures the insurance ought not, by
underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of
his unbiased testimony. --Marshall.
[1913 Webster]



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Note added at 1 hr (2007-05-11 07:44:26 GMT)
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May be we should read "insurance underwriten purposes". However, I cant clearly understand in this sentence the relevance with the isnurance industry....