Etymology

policyholder

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Today it means: The party to an insurance contract who owns the policy and thus transfers a risk to an insurer (i.e., pays the insurer to take the risk). Full definition →

English holder ← Middle English holden ← Old English healdan
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  1. Englishpolicy
  2. Proto-Germanic*haldaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*haldan
  4. Old Englishhealdan
  5. Middle Englishholden
  6. Englishhold
  7. Englishholder
  8. English todaypolicyholder

From policy + holder.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.