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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured;
- Example: "reinsurance enables a client to get coverage that would be too great for any one company to assume"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reinsurance \Re`in*sur"ance\ (-sh?r"ans), n. 1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance. [1913 Webster] 2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reinsurance n 1: sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured; "reinsurance enables a client to get coverage that would be too great for any one company to assume"
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

RE-INSURANCE, mar. contr. An insurance made by a former insurer, his executors, administrators, or assigns, to protect himself and his estate from a risk to which they were liable by the first insurance. 2. It differs from a double insurance (q.v.) in this, that in the latter cases, the insured makes two insurances on the same risk and the same interest. 3. The insurer on a re-insurance is answerable only to the party whom he has insured, and not to the original insured, who can have no remedy against him in case of loss, even though the original insurer become insolvent, because there is no privity of contract between them and the original insured. 3 Kent, Com. 227; Park. on Ins. c. 15, p. 276; Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 4, s. 4