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  • I shall set up chambers in the City, and work at actuarial calculations and conveyancing.†  (source)
    actuarial = related to the collection and interpretation of numerical data -- especially life expectancy and other statistics use to calculate insurance premiums
  • A salesman of some sort, or maybe an actuary.†  (source)
  • It is lamentable to think of; but this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process, was self-imposed in defiance of all calculation, and went dead against any table of probabilities that any Actuary would have drawn up from the premises.†  (source)
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  • Mamma thought we were doing a round of sightseeing together; but I was really at Honoria's chambers in Chancery Lane every day, working away at actuarial calculations for her, and helping her as well as a greenhorn could.†  (source)
    actuarial = related to the collection and interpretation of numerical data -- especially life expectancy and other statistics use to calculate insurance premiums
  • And he had experience of the like brood beasts and of springers, greasy hoggets and wether wool, having been some years before actuary for Mr Joseph Cuffe, a worthy salesmaster that drove his trade for live stock and meadow auctions hard by Mr Gavin Low's yard in Prussia street.†  (source)
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