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insurance poor

insurance poor adjective: short of money as a result of paying high insurance premiums.

Adjective

insurance poor (comparative more insurance poor, superlative most insurance poor)

  1. Short of money as a result of paying high insurance premiums.
    • For how is it possible for a prospect to be “insurance poor” any more than it is possible for a man to be “stocks and bonds poor," or “owning too many apartment houses poor,” or “having too big a bank account poor”?1931, Insurance Newsweek, volume 32, page 16
    • Most beginning business people soon find themselves “insurance poor” if they do not have the right agent. Talk to other small business people about who they use as their insurance agent.2007, Les Nunn, Financial Essentials for Successful Business

Forms of insurance poor

comparativemore insurance poor
superlativemost insurance poor

Questions about insurance poor

What does insurance poor mean?
Insurance poor means short of money as a result of paying high insurance premiums.
What part of speech is insurance poor?
Insurance poor is an adjective.

Words near insurance poor in the dictionary

  1. insurance frauds
  2. insurance goal
  3. insurance goals
  4. insurance policies
  5. insurance policy
  6. insurance poor
  7. insurance shot
  8. insurance shots
  9. insurancelike
  10. insurancer
  11. insurancers

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