UNDERWRITE
underwrite
Verb
- To write below or under; subscribe.
- To subscribe (a document, policy etc.) with one's name.
- To sign; to put one's name to.
- To agree to pay by signing one's name; subscribe.
- Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.
- To act as an underwriter.
- To support, lend support to, guarantee the basis of.
- To submit to; put up with.
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