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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-517/
- Published: 2021-06-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-29T19:29:41.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…

actuary (noun) –

1 *obsolete* : clerk, registrar  
2 : a person who calculates insurance and annuity premiums, reserves, and dividends

Source : Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology : First known use in the 1550s. Registrar, clerk from Medieval Latin actuarius. Copyist, account-keeper, short-hand writer, from Latin actus in the specialized sense of[ ](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=actuary&ref=goodoil.news)public business (literally a doing from root ag- “to drive, draw out or forth, move”). Meaning person skilled in the calculation of chances and costs, especially as employed by an insurer, is from 1849.

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