insurancelike

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adjective

Resembling insurance or insurance policies

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English insurance →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

adjectiveinsurancelike (comparative more insurancelike, superlative most insurancelike)

comparative more insurancelike · superlative most insurancelike

  1. Resembling insurance or insurance policies

    Credit-default swaps are insurancelike contracts that Wall Street created in the early 1990s.

    2009 January 25, Gretchen Morgenson, “Time to Unravel the Knot of Credit-Default Swaps”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishinsurance
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishinsurancelike

From insurance + -like.

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APA

insurancelike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insurancelike

MLA

“insurancelike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insurancelike. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insurancelike,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insurancelike.

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