insurance

equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another in exchange for payment
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insurance

Summary

insurance is an industry[1]. insurance ranks in the top 3% of industry entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,372 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • insurance's instance of is recorded as industry[3].
  • insurance's instance of is recorded as product category[4].
  • insurance is a type of financial product[5].
  • insurance is a type of financial services[6].
  • insurance is part of quaternary sector of the economy[7].
  • insurance is part of risk management[8].
  • insurance's Commons category is recorded as Insurance[9].
  • insurance's industry is recorded as insurance industry[10].
  • insurance's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Insurance[11].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[14].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[16].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17].
  • insurance's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[18].
  • insurance's topic has template is recorded as Template:Insurance[19].
  • insurance's has characteristic is recorded as insurance type[20].
  • insurance's different from is recorded as insurance company[21].
  • insurance's different from is recorded as insurance policy[22].
  • insurance's different from is recorded as gross premiums written[23].
  • insurance's different from is recorded as insurance claim[24].
  • insurance's different from is recorded as insurance[25].
  • insurance's history of topic is recorded as history of insurance[26].
  • insurance's hashtag is recorded as insurance[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include industry[3] and product category[4]. Recorded subclass of include financial product[5] and financial services[6].

Use and Application

Part of include quaternary sector of the economy[7], an economic sector[28] and risk management[8], a type of management[29].

Why It Matters

insurance ranks in the top 3% of industry entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,372 views/month).[2] insurance has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] insurance is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . roiw.org. roiw.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0001581-pojisteni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001581-pojisteni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 9w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry insurance industry
    Subclass of financial product, financial services
    Instance of industry, product category
    Topic has template Template:Insurance
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||ca, azb, cv */ #pwb Copy label"
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