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Actuary

noun

(pl. actuaries)

Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums). Synonym: statistician.

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"Actuary" Quotes from Famous Books

... The actuary of the national debt couldn't calculate the number of children who are coming here on Twelfth Night, in honor of Charley's birthday, for which occasion I have provided a magic lantern and divers other tremendous engines of that nature. But the best of it is that Forster and ...

— Yesterdays with Authors • James T. Fields

... have increased also, and the families who were enthroned and made powerful in the legislation and administration of the country must have had the first pull at, and the largest profit out of, that patronage? There is no actuary in existence who can calculate how much of the wealth, of the Strength, of the supremacy of the territorial families of England has been derived from an unholy participation in the fruits of the industry of the people, which have ...

— Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 • Edgar Jones

Words linked to "Actuary" : surveyor, estimator, calculator, statistics, reckoner, figurer, computer, statistician, actuarial