A fork of Rural Dictionary
1) An actuary is a business professionnal who calculates insurance primes. They have VERY high skills in mathematics (statistics and finance). Actuaries have to be reliable and work-aholics.
2) An actuary is a place where they bury dead actors
An actuary is an accountant who find his life too funny
The name given to someone who has been condemned to death by slow and painful analysis
Wow, I'm so glad I dropped out of college and got this job at McDonald's so that I don't have to be an actuary!
An equine actuary is a bookmaker: one who gives odds and accepts bets on horse races.
Crazy Chester was a well-reputed equine actuary in New Orleans. He could tell you who was running at any of the racetracks and their likely odds.
proof that any association with the word actuarial implies boringness and morbidity.
Even attempted humour aimed at ridiculing actuaries fall short due to the blandness of the actuarial profession.
examples of actuarial jokes:
"An actuary is someone who wanted to be an accountant, but didn't have the personality for it."
"An actuary is someone who expects everyone to be dead on time."
1. The study of birds
2. Applies maths & statistical methods to assess risk in insurance & finance industries
Josephine was interested in birds so she looked up actuary studies in the University handbook