actuary

Definitions


[ˈaktʃʊəri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who compiles and analyses statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (originally denoting a clerk or registrar of a court): from Latin actuarius ‘bookkeeper’, from actus (see act). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century




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