mutual insurance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutualandinsurance
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mutual
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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insurance
noun
uk/ɪnˈʃɔː.rənsɪnˈʃʊə.rəns/us/ɪnˈʃɜ.r.əns/
an agreement in which you pay a company money and they pay your costs if you have an accident, ...
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(Definition ofmutualandinsurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is the sense in which ignorance is said to facilitatemutualinsurance.
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In particular, livestock liquidation was the dominant strategy to cope with health shocks, followed bymutualinsurance.
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This is the sense in which 'mutualinsurance' is 'mutual'.
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In some cases municipalities were even the co-initiators ofmutualinsurancesocieties.
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The second most common strategy reported ismutualinsurance(24 per cent) as might be expected for idiosyncratic shocks.
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In the nineteenth century, the burgeoning market formutualinsurancesocieties strongly influenced the spread of civil society networks.
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Like most nineteenth-century voluntary associations,mutualinsurancecompanies were grounded in principles of both democracy and exclusionary elitism.
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In particular, livestock liquidation is the dominant strategy to cope with health shocks, followed bymutualinsurance.
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As in the case of othermutualinsurancefunds, a participant in mutualist ship insurance might never actually make a claim against the fund.
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No households in the sample used credit as a coping strategy, and migration andmutualinsurancewere relatively rare events across these villages.
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The other coping strategies include formal credit, informal credit, migration (as temporal resettlement to escape from floods), andmutualinsurance.
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Taking a long-term view,mutualinsurancedid indeed promote the idea of associational self-help by means of civil society organisations among the working and salaried classes.
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In all these cases the associative tradition ofmutualinsuranceorganisations was not replaced but rather embedded in the statutory social insurance systems of the twentieth century.
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The nationalist doctrine of citizenship is closely bound to the welfare state, in which, in principle, co-nationals are treated as a collectivity engaged inmutualinsuranceand assurance.
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The relics of themutualinsurancetradition were sometimes replaced by statutory insurances, integrated into national insurance schemes or relegated to the sector of supplementary insurance.
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The diversification of risk that is so crucial to the effectiveness ofmutualinsurancethus militates against pooling your risks only with others who are running exactly the same risks.
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He said that he reserved his position about his future attitude on the question of the taxation of surpluses ofmutualinsurancesocieties.
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Friendly and provident societies also emerged, to offermutualinsuranceagainst sickness or unemployment.
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In this respect,mutualinsurancecompanies are not much better than the profit-making companies.
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From the economic point of view this would be a contradiction and would particularly hit themutualinsurancesocieties.
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