Meanings
plural reinsurances
- countableuncountablebusinessInsurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized. Such insurance and catastrophe bonds are backstops to insurer insolvency from unexpectedly large losses.
1 more example
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business.
2019 June 19, “Sompo International to Leverage AIR's Innovative Casualty Analytics Solution for Multi-Line Risk Analysis”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 14 May 2025
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishinsurance
- Englishreinsurance
Translations
Arabic إِعَادَةُ تَأْمِين
- إِعَادَةُ تَأْمِين (ʔiʕādatu taʔmīn)insurance purchased by insurance companies
Bulgarian презастраховане
- презастраховане (prezastrahovane)insurance purchased by insurance companies
Catalan contraassegurança
- contraassegurançainsurance purchased by insurance companies
Dutch herverzekering
- herverzekeringinsurance purchased by insurance companies
Finnish jälleenvakuutus
- jälleenvakuutusinsurance purchased by insurance companies
French réassurance
- réassuranceinsurance purchased by insurance companies
German Rückversicherung
- Rückversicherunginsurance purchased by insurance companies
Greek αντασφάλεια
- αντασφάλεια (antasfáleia)insurance purchased by insurance companies
Indonesian reasuransi
- reasuransiinsurance purchased by insurance companies
Italian riassicurazione
- riassicurazioneinsurance purchased by insurance companies
Polish reasekuracja
- reasekuracjainsurance purchased by insurance companies
Russian перестрахо́вка, перестрахова́ние
- перестрахо́вка (perestraxóvka)insurance purchased by insurance companies
- перестрахова́ние (perestraxovánije)insurance purchased by insurance companies
Spanish reaseguro, reaseguración
- reaseguroinsurance purchased by insurance companies
- reaseguracióninsurance purchased by insurance companies
Swedish återförsäkring
- återförsäkringinsurance purchased by insurance companies
Turkish reasürans
- reasüransinsurance purchased by insurance companies
Cite this entry
reinsurance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reinsurance
“reinsurance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reinsurance. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reinsurance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reinsurance.
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