OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3440

underwrite

/ˈʌndəɹaɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
suscribir
Specifically, to assume financial responsibility for something, and guarantee it against failure.
Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is deter…