insurancelike

English

Alternative forms

• insurance-like

Etymology

insurance +‎ -like

Adjective

insurancelike (comparative more insurancelike, superlative most insurancelike)

1. Resembling insurance or insurance policies
   • 2009 January 25, Gretchen Morgenson, “Time to Unravel the Knot of Credit-Default Swaps”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Credit-default swaps are insurancelike contracts that Wall Street created in the early 1990s.