Insure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To provide or arrange insurance for: a company that insures homeowners and businesses.
  • v. To acquire or have insurance for: insured herself against losses; insured his car for theft.
  • v. To make sure, certain, or secure. See Usage Note at assure.
  • verb-intransitive. To buy or sell insurance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
  • v. To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
  • v. Alternative spelling of ensure: (transitive) To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
  • v. Alternative form of assure: (transitive) To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make sure or secure.
  • v. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for
  • verb-intransitive. To underwrite; to make insurance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make sure, certain, or secure; give assurance of; assure: as, to insure safety to any one.
  • Specifically To guarantee or secure indemnity for future loss or damage (as to a building from fire, or to a person from accident or death) on certain stipulated conditions; make a subject of insurance; assure: as, to insure a ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; to insure a house against fire.
  • To pledge; betroth.
  • Synonyms Insure, Assure. Assure may express the making certain in mind: as, I was assured of safety by his friendly manner; insure has not this sense. Insure is a possible word to express the making certain in fact, and is more common than ensure: as, his lack of money insured his early return; assure has not this sense. Insure and assure are both used of the act of pledging a payment of money upon loss or death, but assure is rarely used in that sense in the United States.
  • To undertake to secure or assure against loss or damage on receipt of a certain payment or premium; make insurance: as, the company insures at a low premium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. protect by insurance
  • v. make certain of
  • v. take out insurance for
  • v. be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
  • Verb Form
    insured    insures    insuring   
    Cross Reference
    guarantee    inshore   
    Hyponym
    make    doom   
    Form
    insured    insuring    insurer    insurance    reinsure   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    underwrite   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baldur    Bloor    Moor    Moore    Muir    Ruhr    Ur    allure    assure    bonjour   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts