adjuster

or ad·jus·tor

[ uh-juhs-ter ]

/ əˈdʒʌs tər /

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noun

a person or thing that adjusts.

an insurance company representative who investigates claims and makes settlement recommendations based on the estimate of the damages and the company's liability.

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adjustable spanner, adjustable-pitch, adjustable-rate mortgage, adjusted, adjusted gross income, adjuster, adjustive, adjustment, adjustment disorder, adjustor, adjutancy

Origin of adjuster

First recorded in 1665–75; adjust + -er¹

Related formsnon·ad·just·er, noun

Examples from the Web for adjuster

Joe took the company's adjuster and went down to investigate.
Jiglets|Walter Jones
The techno-theological attempts to rise from the adjustment of means to ends, to an adjuster or contriver.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV|Various
The collector and the adjuster of claims must be courteous and at the same time shrewd.
Business English|Rose Buhlig
"And she wants a new pair after having worn them half a dozen times," added the adjuster.
The Knack of Managing|Lewis K. Urquhart and Herbert Watson

"Not an Adjuster," I asserted my father, but he had already perceived that this was so.
The Day of the Boomer Dukes|Frederik Pohl

Word Origin and History for adjuster

adjuster

1670s, agent noun in English form from adjust. Insurance sense is from 1830.

adjuster

or ad·jus·tor

noun

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