actuary
noun/ˈæktʃuəri/
/ˈæktʃueri/
(plural actuaries)
- a person whose job involves calculating insurance risks and payments for insurance companies by studying how frequently accidents, fires, deaths, etc. happenTopics Jobsc2Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a clerk or registrar of a court): from Latin actuarius ‘bookkeeper’, from actus ‘event, thing done’, act- ‘done’, from the verb agere, reinforced by the French noun acte. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.
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