credit insurance

credit insurance definition - finance
An insurance policy that protects the insured against unusually high losses from unpaid accounts receivable. Often a bank requires credit insurance before it issues a loan backed by a companyÂ’s receivables.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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