| 词汇 | self-insure |
| 释义 | self-insure verb[ I or T ] INSURANCEukus to not buy insurance against a particular risk: Last year, the company decided to self-insure, covering its 150 employees' health bills itself. self-insurernoun[ C ] The changes increased the obligation of self-insurers to make improvements in occupational health and safety. Examples of self-insureself-insure Many of the uninsured are well-to-do young people who simply choose to self-insure, and many more are already eligible for public programs. Savings are the only way to self-insure against the risks associated with uncertain lifetime and the earning shocks. Decreasing risk aversion and greater ability to self-insure gives wealthy households less incentive to invest in a portfolio of crop varieties. Like his high-income counterpart he faces a trade-off between maximizing versus insuring his retirement income, but he may have greater capacity to self-insure. They also may reflect income smoothing and insurance through off-farm work activities, which decrease households' need to self-insure through crop diversification. The households thus save to self-insure against labor earnings shocks and life-span risk, for retirement, and possibly to leave bequests to their children. In the environment where future earnings are uncertain and insurance markets are incomplete, they accumulate wealth in order to self-insure against such uncertainty (the precautionary motive of savings). Insurance institutions which did not offer contributors a 'fair bet' (an expected value of benefits proportional to contributions) would see those with low expected benefits turn to competitors or self-insure. How can a small company such as this self-insure? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the event, the council did not purchase the policy, and decided to self-insure out of the contingency reserve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have no plans to make individuals self-insure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At this point the insured could self-insure and discontinue the life insurance program. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Employers that self-insure may carry excess insurance for occurrences that generate unacceptably large losses for the employer. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. With such policies, the insured is essentially agreeing to self-insure and self-defend for smaller claims, and to tender only for liability claims that exceed a certain number. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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