reinsurance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured
    • reinsurance enables a client to get coverage that would be too great for any one company to assume

WordNet


Re`in*sur"ance noun
Definitions
  1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.
  2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.

Webster 1913