| 单词 | hand-in-hand office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHand-in-Hand Office 2. Chiefly in form Hand-in-Hand. Designating a mutual insurance company; of or relating to such a company. Originally in Hand-in-Hand Office, a nickname for the Contributors for Insuring Houses, Chambers or Rooms from Loss by Fire, by Amicable Contribution (founded in 1696), with reference to the company's emblem of two clasped hands. Now historical.The Contributors for Insuring Houses, Chambers or Rooms from Loss by Fire, by Amicable Contribution changed its name officially to the Hand in Hand Fire Office in 1720, and in 1836 became the Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society. After the 18th cent. the sense is only found as preserved in the name of this company. Its assets were acquired by the Commercial Union in 1905 and the company dissolved. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance company (general) hand in hand1701 Lloyd's1819 Pru1927 1701 Post Boy 12 July The Amicable Insurers (or Hand in Hand Office) having lately in an Advertisement given out, that they Insure Cheaper than the Friendly Society. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. x. 297 (heading) Of the third Office, commonly call'd the Hand in Hand Office. 1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (ed. 2) I. 1791 The hand-in-hand office insure for seven years at 12 s. per cent, on brick, and double that sum for timber-houses. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 27 493 It may be defined a hand-in-hand assurance office for securing mercantile credit. a1800 W. Cowper Poems (1801) 110 Like hand in hand insurance plates. 1898 Speaker 30 July 135/2 The company issuing such a report is, of course, the famous Hand-in-Hand Insurance Society, the doyen of all insurance companies. 1997 Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society was the oldest existing insurance company in the world. < as lemmas |
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