underwrite
Example Sentences
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For more than a decade, she covered consumer lending broadly, with a focus on how lenders underwrote loans and borrowers' ability to repay them.
Investment banking went on to underwrite construction of the railroad, the telephone, and an industrial revolution that turned America into an economic and military superpower.
From Barron's
Enter the Mortgage Bankers Association, which is lobbying the Administration to let lenders underwrite mortgages based on a single credit report.
“Long-term performance is the result of underwriting rigor, disciplined portfolio construction and careful balance sheet management. After all, private credit is still just credit.”
Nobody wants to hear it, but success would mean underwriting many procurement experiments and some systems that don’t pan out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
