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means Underwriting is the process of evaluating how risky it would be to insure, loan to, or invest in something, and setting the price or terms accordingly.

from From Middle English 'under' + 'write' — literally to write beneath something. The term comes from the old practice of insurers signing their names underneath the terms of a policy (or ship's cargo document) to formally accept a share of the risk. Later it extended to banking and securities, where financiers who 'wrote under' an offering were committing to back it financially.