In return for assuming part of the risk, the underwriter is paid a premium.

A fight over "shares" has also blocked agreement on a plan to have the state assume part of the Medicaid costs now borne by county governments.

All three candidates agreed that insurance companies would have to assume part of the price for solving the state's automobile insurance crisis.

It assumes part of the risk covered by these insurance companies, as well as providing comprehensive advice on insurance business.

He thus assumed part of the political responsibility for the current financial crisis and the associated protests.

The vehicles will now assume part of that job.

Otherwise, I can assume part of your load.

That way we would both assume part of the loss.

Currently, consumers assume part of the responsibility by sorting their waste, which they are asked to do.

America need not take on this financial burden alone, but it must assume part of the responsibility.