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noun

Actuary n. (pl. actuaries)

(Law) A registrar or clerk; used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Actuary" Quotes from Famous Books

... the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various

... Where is the actuary who can appraise the value of a man's opinions? 'When we speak of a man's opinions,' says Dr. Newman, 'what do we mean but the collection of notions he happens to have?' Happens to have! How did he come by them? It is the knowledge we all possess of the sorts of ways in which ...

— Obiter Dicta • Augustine Birrell

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