ADJUSTER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Adjuster

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ədʒˈəstər/ Listen

noun

Adjuster n.

One who, or that which, adjusts.

An insurance agent who examines claims against personal or property damage insurance policies and makes estimates and recommendations regarding the amount which should be paid to the policyholder.

See images of 'Adjuster'

Etymology of 'Adjuster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Adjuster" Quotes from Famous Books

... pyrometers are supplied with a zero adjuster, by means of which the pointer can be set to any actual cold-junction temperature. If the cold junction of the thermo-couple is in a temperature of 100 deg.F., the pointer can be set to this point on the scale, and the readings of ...

— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin

... absolutely required to make the escapement safe. The amount of draw given to the locking stone c is usually about twelve degrees to the radial line k a. Much of the perfection of the chronometer escapement will always depend on the skill of the escapement adjuster and not on the mechanical ...

— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous

... Directory, the lawyers their List, the peers their Peerage? There are books which record the names and the particulars of musicians, schoolmasters, stockbrokers, saints and bookmakers, and I dare say there is an average adjuster's almanac. A peer, a horse, dog, cat, and even a white mouse, if of blood sufficiently blue, has his pedigree recorded somewhere. Above all, there is that astounding and entertaining volume, "Who's Who," found in every ...

— The Pirates' Who's Who - Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers • Philip Gosse

... days; but I've got a pull wid the insurance adjuster, and might git an extra allowance for yer." This was cut from whole cloth. He had never known an ...

— Tom Grogan • F. Hopkinson Smith

... be interested in a case reported to us by L. J. S. His company had issued a tourist policy to a lady who lost her trunk on the way to Tulsa, Okla., and who put in a claim for $800. The adjuster ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor