词汇 | uninsurable |
释义 | uninsurable adjective (alsoun-insurable)uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˈʃɔː.rə.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˈʃʊr.ə.bəl/ If someone or something is uninsurable, it is not possible to buy insurance(= an agreement in which you pay a company money and they pay your costs if something is lost or broken, if someone is ill, etc.) for them or it: An estimated 2 million people are considered by health plans to be medically uninsurable. The list of things considered uninsurable differs from one company to another. Related words insure insurance Opposite insurable The development of increasingly expensive veterinary treatments has meant that older pets are becoming virtually uninsurable. It is for entrepreneurs to assume the uninsurable risks of the marketplace. For the bigger banks, the risk of default is essentially uninsurable. Insurance actuarial assessor assurance bancassurance broking burial society comprehensive comprehensive insurance health coverage indemnification indemnify insurable life assurance mature non-network policy protect third-party insurance underwriter uninsured uninsurable | Business Englishuninsurable adjective uk /ˌʌnɪnˈʃɔːrəbl/ us /ˌʌnɪnˈʃʊərəbəl/ INSURANCE used to describe something for which you cannot get insurance: Houses in areas where there are floods are uninsurable. Examples of uninsurableuninsurable In the baseline economy, there are uninsurable idiosyncratic risks associated with uncertain lifetime and earnings shocks. One possible reason for idiosyncratic risk to be uninsurable is that the shocks to an individual's productivity are not publicly observable. At each period, households face uninsurable idiosyncratic uncertainty about the length of their lifetime. They study a model in which there are uninsurable, persistent, and heteroskedastic labor income shocks. The uninsurable income shocks generate a precautionary demand for financial assets, resulting in a positive target savings level. The economy is an overlapping generations model characterized by uninsurable uncertainty about the length of lifetime. Infinitely lived households face uninsurable labor income shocks. In other words, we deal with uninsurable income risks. This argument shows that simply adding some uninsurable income risk to the standard complete markets model will not substantially increase risk premia. But divorce or separation are essentially uninsurable risks, and so is the inability to regain the earnings level needed to pay the mortgage after a period out of employment. People sometimes refer to pillion riders as being uninsurable, but that is rather an unfortunate word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has brought loss of confidence, lower investment and the almost uninsurable risks of the currency markets which make inflation harder to control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The life of an officer who goes to war is uninsurable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We also take account of the fact that some structures are uninsurable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There may be some who have found employment in uninsurable occupations, and their cards have been put in the two months' file. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of uninsurable 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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