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Synonyms for actuary

noun person who inspects financial records

More words related to actuary

accountant

noun. person who maintains financial accounts of a business

auditor

noun. person who inspects financial records

bean counter

noun. number cruncher

number cruncher

noun. mathematical worker

Word Origin & History

1550s, "registrar, clerk," from Latin actuarius "copyist, account-keeper," from actus "public business" (see act (n.)). Modern insurance office meaning first recorded 1849.

Example Sentences for actuary

Assuredly, they who plan picnics are not animated by the spirit of an actuary.

The judge beckoned to the actuary and ordered him to read the indictment.

The sum to be given would be named without difficulty by an actuary.

Where is the actuary who can appraise the value of a man's opinions?

When it came his time to loosen up he never referred the waiter to an actuary.

What actuary, he asks contemptuously, can appraise the value of a man's opinions?

An actuary will tell you that I am likely to outlive Colonel Cowles.

What the mortality is likely to be I do not accurately know; but any actuary will easily calculate it for you.

The societies have now a registrar, an actuary, a revising barrister and two public valuers.

Actuary, akt′ū-ar-i, n. a registrar or clerk: one who makes the calculations connected with an insurance office.