We underwrite the stock of Lallapaloosa at fifty cents a share, thus supplying the new corporation with the funds with which to purchase the properties of the old.

He had helped to underwrite a coffee company in the hope that the public would come along upon the feed and gradually nibble away some of his holding, but the political sky had been clouded and the public had refused to invest.

The English issuing house sends round a stockbroker to underwrite the loan.

He had made it under the assumption that the firm was thinking of underwriting its bonds.

"And the firm can underwrite the last hundred thousand, and that will clean it up.

When they are asked to underwrite a scheme" "Underwrite?

By the operation of the former of these instruments the United States virtually underwrites the political stability and the financial responsibility of the Cuban Government.