"underwrite" meaning in All languages combined

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    },
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "underwriten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English underwriten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "underwrītan",
        "t": "to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English underwrītan (“to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "write"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + write",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "onderschrijven",
        "t": "to endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch onderschrijven (“to endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "unterschreiben",
        "t": "to sign; endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "German unterschreiben (“to sign; endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "underskrive",
        "t": "to sign; endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish underskrive (“to sign; endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English underwriten, from Old English underwrītan (“to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe”), equivalent to under- + write. Compare Dutch onderschrijven (“to endorse”), German unterschreiben (“to sign; endorse”), Danish underskrive (“to sign; endorse”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underwrites",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwriting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwrote",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwritten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwrit",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "underwrites",
        "2": "underwriting",
        "3": "underwrote",
        "4": "underwritten",
        "past_ptc2": "underwrit",
        "past_ptc2_qual": "archaic, rare"
      },
      "expansion": "underwrite (third-person singular simple present underwrites, present participle underwriting, simple past underwrote, past participle underwritten or (archaic, rare) underwrit)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "To write below or under; subscribe."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-hWYtCA2W",
      "links": [
        [
          "subscribe",
          "subscribe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To write below or under; subscribe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "subscribe",
          "subscribe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 21 22 24 8 3 3 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sign; to put one's name to."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-OBRzNrVo",
      "links": [
        [
          "sign",
          "sign"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sign; to put one's name to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 21 22 24 8 3 3 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-j7yBJTg6",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220",
          "text": "Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-n~q1coNU",
      "links": [
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
        ],
        [
          "guarantee",
          "guarantee"
        ],
        [
          "failure",
          "failure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podpisvam",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "подписвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "onderschrijven"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "allekirjoittaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "unterschreiben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "fo-yial"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "odpisać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "ubezpieczyć"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 4 2 2 81 1 4 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
          "word": "suscribir"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Insurance",
          "orig": "en:Insurance",
          "parents": [
            "Finance",
            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1810, Samuel Marshall, Of marine insurance",
          "text": "The broker who procures the insurance […]ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act as an underwriter."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-6ZhgoQpY",
      "links": [
        [
          "insurance",
          "insurance"
        ],
        [
          "underwriter",
          "underwriter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, insurance) To act as an underwriter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "insurance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-dl4Ogwml",
      "links": [
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 15 6 14 14 8 9 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 21 22 24 8 3 3 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 10 8 10 11 8 10 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with under-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to; put up with."
      ],
      "id": "en-underwrite-en-verb-O9Sb17LW",
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "put up with",
          "put up with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To submit to; put up with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndəɹaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌndəˈɹaɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "underwrite"
  ],
  "word": "underwrite"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English irregular verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms prefixed with under-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "underwriter"
    },
    {
      "word": "underwriting"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "underwriten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English underwriten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "underwrītan",
        "t": "to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English underwrītan (“to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "write"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + write",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "onderschrijven",
        "t": "to endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch onderschrijven (“to endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "unterschreiben",
        "t": "to sign; endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "German unterschreiben (“to sign; endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "underskrive",
        "t": "to sign; endorse"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish underskrive (“to sign; endorse”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English underwriten, from Old English underwrītan (“to write at the foot of, write under, subscribe”), equivalent to under- + write. Compare Dutch onderschrijven (“to endorse”), German unterschreiben (“to sign; endorse”), Danish underskrive (“to sign; endorse”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underwrites",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwriting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwrote",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwritten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwrit",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "underwrites",
        "2": "underwriting",
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        "past_ptc2": "underwrit",
        "past_ptc2_qual": "archaic, rare"
      },
      "expansion": "underwrite (third-person singular simple present underwrites, present participle underwriting, simple past underwrote, past participle underwritten or (archaic, rare) underwrit)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To write below or under; subscribe."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subscribe",
          "subscribe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To write below or under; subscribe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subscribe",
          "subscribe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sign; to put one's name to."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sign",
          "sign"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sign; to put one's name to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220",
          "text": "Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assume",
          "assume"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ],
        [
          "responsibility",
          "responsibility"
        ],
        [
          "guarantee",
          "guarantee"
        ],
        [
          "failure",
          "failure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Insurance"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1810, Samuel Marshall, Of marine insurance",
          "text": "The broker who procures the insurance […]ought not, by underwriting the policy, to deprive the parties of his unbiased testimony.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act as an underwriter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insurance",
          "insurance"
        ],
        [
          "underwriter",
          "underwriter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, insurance) To act as an underwriter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "insurance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To submit to; put up with."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "submit",
          "submit"
        ],
        [
          "put up with",
          "put up with"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To submit to; put up with."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndəɹaɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʌndəˈɹaɪt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podpisvam",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "подписвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "onderschrijven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "allekirjoittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "unterschreiben"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "fo-yial"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "odpisać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "ubezpieczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to assume financial responsibility for something",
      "word": "suscribir"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "underwrite"
  ],
  "word": "underwrite"
}