Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A statistician who computes insurance risks and premiums.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A registrar or clerk: a term of the civil law, used originally in courts of civil-law jurisdiction.
  • noun A person skilled in the application of the doctrine of chances to financial affairs, more especially in regard to the insurance of lives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
  • noun The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated, 16th-19th century registrar, clerk.
  • noun A professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin āctuārius, secretary of accounts, from ācta, records, from neuter pl. past participle of agere, to drive, do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin actuarius ("copyist, account-keeper"), from actus ("public business"); see actuarius.

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Examples

  • That one actuary is nothing compared to the teams of actuaries at IMSS working on the workers 'union pension plan analysis.

    La Profesora Abstraida 2005

  • That one actuary is nothing compared to the teams of actuaries that work at ISSSTE and the Secretary of the Treasury that formulated the ISSSTE reform proposal, with additional technical assistance from the World Bank.

    La Profesora Abstraida 2005

  • That one actuary is nothing compared to the teams of actuaries that work at ISSSTE and the Secretary of the Treasury that formulated the ISSSTE reform proposal, with additional technical assistance from the World Bank.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • That one actuary is nothing compared to the teams of actuaries at IMSS working on the workers 'union pension plan analysis.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • She is a qualified actuary from the French Actuarial Institute.

    ITnews 2010

  • She is a qualified actuary from the German Actuarial Association (DAV) and a member of the Swiss Actuarial Association (SAV).

    ITnews 2010

  • No, I am not talking about being an actuary, which is supposed to be one of the best jobs in the USA and confirms my general impression about the mental soundness of some people who live in the land of the WWE.

    Dream job! Andres Guadamuz 2004

  • Just FYI. lambert The actuary was a whistleblower under Bush, too. hipparchia that's ok, jason stands ready to help smear the actuary quoted in that wapo article

    Corrente 2009

  • Just FYI. lambert The actuary was a whistleblower under Bush, too. hipparchia that's ok, jason stands ready to help smear the actuary quoted in that wapo article

    Corrente 2009

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  • There was a Wild Wild West episode with this word in the title.

    February 11, 2013