Reinsure

Definitions: Reinsure

Reinsure

Verb

1. Provide additional insurance for.

2. Insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed.

3. Insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Kenya	Also, Kenyan importers must use local insurance companies to insure imports while the insurance companies are currently required to reinsure part of their business with Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation, a GOK parastatal reinsurance company. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Reinsure" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Reinsure" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "reinsure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		risiguroj. (various references)

Bulgarian		презастраховам. (various references)

Czech		ujistit (affirm, assure, reassure). (various references)

Danish		gensidig genforsikring af deres forpligtelser (to mutually reinsure their liabilities). (various references)

Dutch		onderling hun verplichtingen herverzekeren (to mutually reinsure their liabilities). (various references)

Finnish		jälleenvakuuttaa. (various references)

French		réassurer mutuellement leurs engagements (to mutually reinsure their liabilities). (various references)

German		rückversichern (to reinsure). (various references)

Greek		ασφαλίζω πάλι, αντασφαλίζω. (various references)

Hungarian		viszontbiztosít (to reassure). (various references)

Italian		riassicurare mutualmente i loro impegni (to mutually reinsure their liabilities). (various references)

Manx		cur urraghys er reesht. (various references)

Pig Latin		einsureray

Portuguese		ressegurar. (various references)

Romanian		reasigura (reassure). (various references)

Russian		перестраховывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovo osigurati. (various references)

Spanish		reasegurar (reassure, underwrite). (various references)

Swedish		återförsäkra. (various references)

Thai		ทำประกันใหม่. (various references)

Turkish		yeniden sigortalamak, sigortaya başka birini daha katmak, sigortasını yinelemek. (various references)

Ukranian		перестраховувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reinsure": reinsured, reinsurer, reinsurers, reinsures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reinsure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reinsurer, reinure. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reinsure" (pronounced rē'i'nshuh"r)
5	-i' n sh uh" r	insure.
4	-n sh uh" r	ensure, unsure.
3	-sh uh" r	assure, brochure, reassure, sure.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: ensurer, insurer, rerisen, ruiners.
	-2 letters: ensure, enures, insure, inures, nereis, nurser, rerise, reruns, rinser, ruiner, rusine, seiner, serein, serine, sirree, urines, ursine.
	-3 letters: ensue, enure, ernes, inure, nurse, reins, rerun, resin, reuse, rinse, risen, riser, ruers, ruins, runes, seine, serer, serin, sieur, siree, siren, sneer, surer, urine.
	-4 letters: erne, erns, errs, ires, rees, rein.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: nurseries, reinjures, reinsured, reinsurer, reinsures, reuniters, turneries.
	+2 letters: currencies, overinsure, pruriences, reinjuries, reinsurers, resecuring, scrutineer, superliner, underwires.
	+3 letters: dundrearies, enterovirus, hurriedness, incurrences, intercourse, natriureses, overinsured, overinsures, praemunires, pruriencies, refurnished, refurnishes, reinsurance, relicensure, remeasuring, resurveying, scrutineers, superliners, supersinger, terrigenous, turnvereins, underprices, underwrites, urinometers, vulneraries, wienerwurst.
	+4 letters: blurrinesses, bunchberries, countercries, counterfires, intercluster, intercourses, interneurons, interregnums, interrupters, neutralizers, premeasuring, quaternaries, reconfigures, recrudescing, recruitments, reinsurances, reintroduces, relicensures, repercussion, requirements, resurrecting, resurrection, superheroine, supersingers, surrejoinder, surrendering, underbidders, underinsured, undersheriff, undershirted, understories, underwriters, unregistered, unrestrained, unrestricted, wienerwursts, youngberries.
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