| 词汇 | self-insurance |
| 释义 | self-insurance noun[ U ] INSURANCEukus a situation in which a person or company does not buy insurance against a particular risk: Insuring a £1,500 personal computer will cost you around £500. Saving that much in a self-insurance account would be better. Examples of self-insuranceself-insurance It follows from the above optimality condition that the two2 period incentive compatibility contract provides greater insurance cover than does self-insurance from issuing risk-free bonds. It basically provides a special case where self-insurance could be optimal. Next, self-insurance refers to the private financial preparations that individuals make, such as savings, private pensions, insurance and other investments. This is because, given the gross consumption allocation, the agent is, on the margin, contemplating deviations to a lower credit level and a higher effort level (the self-insurance motive). In the current framework, neither insurance contracts nor self-insurance by borrowing is available, and only fiat money can provide self-insurance against income fluctuations during middle age. In the absence of an insurance contract, only fiat money can play an essential role as self-insurance against the income fluctuations of middle-aged consumers in this environment. Second, land ownership provides self-insurance against ever-present income shocks by serving as collateral for credit (formal and informal), and as a marketable asset for expenditure smoothing. Prevention is self-protection; control is self-insurance. That is a major objection at present to any proposal which encourages an increase in self-insurance by local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Checks could accordingly be carried out so as to guarantee the self-insurance principle. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am sure that he understands that the legislation has nothing to do with self-insurance: it is do with third party compulsory insurance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The industry makes provision for self-insurance against material damage—for example, to its stations—through its mutually owned subsidiary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These include the establishment of self-insurance schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In short, it is an in-house self-insurance vehicle. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When employed workers are imperfectly insured against the occurrence of such spells, they hoard assets for self-insurance purposes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of self-insurance These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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