actuaries
Meaning of actuaries
plural noun
a person who compiles and analyses statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums.
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.
Information about actuaries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of actuaries is: actuary.
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Hyphenation of actuaries
ac-tu-ar-ies
- It consists of 4 syllables and 9 chars.
- actuaries is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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