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ACTUARIES

Definition: ACTUARIES

ACTUARIES

Plural

1. Of Actuary

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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Crosswords: ACTUARIES

Etymologies containing "ACTUARIES": Actuary. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ACTUARIES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Life, Death and Money: Actuaries and the Creation of Financial Security (reference)

  • On the trail of actuaries in Texas, 1844-1964 (reference)

  • Pension Mathematics for Actuaries (reference)

  • Practical Risk Theory for Actuaries (reference)

  • Society of Actuaries 50th Anniversary Monograph (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACTUARIES

"ACTUARIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "ACTUARIES" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)99.44%17723,322
Noun (proper)0.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%178N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ACTUARIES

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ACTUARIES": ft-actuaries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACTUARIES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

society of actuaries

90

actuaries

70

american academy of actuaries

31

canadian institute of actuaries

17

institute of actuaries

17

actuaries contact

13

american society pension actuaries

13

chicago consulting actuaries

4

actuaries leggette

3

conference of consulting actuaries

3

actuaries american society

3

academy actuaries

3

actuaries institute uk

3

salary actuaries

2

actuaries faculty institute

2

actuaries uk

2

consulting actuaries

2

actuaries epic

2

pension actuaries

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ACTUARIES

Language Translations for "ACTUARIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

保险统计 (Actuarial, Actuary). (various references)

   

French

  

actuariat. (various references)

   

German

  

Versicherungsstatistiker (actuary). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

actuariesay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ACTUARIES

Misspellings

"ACTUARIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: actualis, actuarian, actuariay, Antiaris, Casuarius, cautares, Macquaries, Macquarrie, Macruaris. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ACTUARIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ACTUARIES" (pronounced a"kkhuwe'rēz)
4-e' r ē zadversaries, aviaries, beneficiaries, blackberries, blueberries, capillaries, cemeteries, commentaries, commissaries, confectionaries, contemporaries, corollaries, cranberries, dictionaries, dignitaries, emissaries, estuaries, fiduciaries, functionaries, intermediaries, itineraries, legionaries, libraries, luminaries, mercenaries, militaries, missionaries, monasteries, obituaries, ordinaries, preliminaries, primaries, proprietaries, raspberries, reactionaries, revolutionaries, sanctuaries, secondaries, secretaries, seminaries, strawberries, subsidiaries, temporaries, tributaries.
3-r ē zallegories, asymmetries, berries, buries, cadres, canaries, carries, categories, Ceres, cherries, conservatories, countries, cowries, dairies, dormitories, entries, fairies, ferries, foundries, geometries, glories, Harries, imageries, industries, interrogatories, inventories, juries, laboratories, lampreys, laundries, lavatories, lorries, marries, miniseries, ministries, observatories, pastries, pleasantries, prairies, quarries, queries, reformatories, registries, repositories, rivalries, safaris, saris, sentries, series, signatories, stories, tapestries, territories, theories, toiletries, tories, varies, visionaries.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ACTUARIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: suricate.

-2 letters: arcuate, aristae, asteria, atresia, caesura, carates, caritas, cristae, curates, curites, icterus, raciest, saucier, stearic.

-3 letters: acarus, acuate, acuter, acutes, airest, arecas, arista, aurate, aurist, caesar, carate, carats, carets, caries, cartes, casita, caster, caters, causer, cerias, cesura, citers, citrus, crates, crista, cruets, cruise, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, curiae, curies, curite, cuties, ericas, eructs, racist, reacts, reatas, recast, rectus, recuts, riatas, rictus, rustic, satire, saucer, steric, striae, suiter, tarsia, terais, tiaras, traces, triacs, trices, truces, urates, uratic, uretic.

-4 letters: acari, aceta, acres, acute, aecia, airts, arcus, areas, areca, areic, arias, arise, aster, astir, atria, aurae, auras, aurei, aures, auric, auris, carat, cares, caret, carse, carte, carts, caste, cater, cates, cause, ceria, cesta, cesti, cires, citer, cites, crate, crest, cries, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curia, curie, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, cutie, cutis, ecrus, erica, eruct, escar, etuis, ictus, irate, races, raias, raise, rates, react, reata, recta, recti, recut, retia, riata, rices, rites, sacra, saice, sauce, saute, scare, scart, scaur, scuta, scute, serac, serai, sieur, sitar, stair, stare, stria, sucre, suite, sutra, taces, tares, tarsi, tears, terai, tiara, tiers, tires, trace, triac, trice, tries, truce, trues, uraei, urase, urate, ureas, ureic, ursae, uteri.

-5 letters: aces, acre, acta, acts, airs, airt, aits, arcs, area, ares, aria, arse, arts, asci, asea, ates, aura, care, cars, cart, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, cire, cist, cite, cris, crus, cues, cure, curs, curt, cute, cuts, ears, east, eats, ecru, ecus, eras, erst, etas, etic, etui, ices, ires, race, raia, rase, rate, rats, recs, reis, rest, rets, rias, rice, rise, rite, rues, ruse, rust, ruts, sari, sate, sati, scar, scat, scut, sear, seat, sect, sera, seta, sice, sire, site, star, stir, suer, suet, suit, sura, sure, tace, tare, tars, taus, tear, teas, tics, tier, ties, tire, true, tsar, tuis, urea, uric, ursa, user, utas.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: autarchies, ciguateras.

 

+2 letters: aeronautics, articulates, autocracies, caricatures, cartularies, reacquaints, sanctuaries.

 

+3 letters: articulacies, bacteriurias, candidatures, capitularies, chartularies, extramusical, matriculates, particulates.

 

+4 letters: bureaucratise, bureaucratism, disarticulate, inarticulates, manufactories, misarticulate, oracularities, paramountcies, particularise, quasiparticle, rearticulates, recapitulates, ultradistance, vascularities.

 

+5 letters: antirheumatics, articulateness, authenticators, avascularities, avuncularities, bureaucratised, bureaucratises, bureaucratisms, bureaucratizes, cauterizations, chateaubriands, circumvallates, constabularies, disarticulated, disarticulates, documentarians, inarticulacies, intracutaneous, misarticulated, misarticulates, particularised, particularises, particularizes, quadruplicates, quasiparticles, recalculations, secularization, ultradistances, ultramasculine, ultrarealistic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACTUARIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 54 55 41 52 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    -    ..-    .-    .-.    ..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01010100 01010101 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#84 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0054 0055 0041 0052 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353754553552433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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