fire insurance
3
3.2
- noun
- /ˈfaɪər ɪnˈʃʊərəns/
- Specialized
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seguro contra incendios
- My fire insurance costs half that much.
- fire insurance map
How much money have you spent on fire insurance for your home?
- How much money have you spent on fire insurance for your home?
- And you think that the insurance industry is perverted when you get when you get fire insurance, it pays you after your house burns down.
Examples
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Most of us haven't the kind of fire insurance to cover a completely burnt house.
Fiction book (1996) -
Would it be morally defensible to allow people to buy fire insurance after their houses burned down?
Blog text (23) -
How much money have you spent on fire insurance for your home?
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Did the fire insurance pay for all this ?
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After all, we take out fire insurance on our homes even though the chance of them burning down is small.
Academic text (2010) -
There has been a minor saving on my fire insurance, but nowhere near enough to offset the cost.
Blog text (23) -
But what about fire insurance premiums?
Academic text (1997) -
"I don't have fire insurance."
Blog text (13) -
So the idea of buying fire insurance does not necessarily mean you're predicting a fire.
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Many homeowners choose to purchase fire insurance to protect their property from potential fire damage.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'insurance against fire damage' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fire' (burning) with 'insurance' (protection against loss). This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern in which the modifier specifies the risk covered, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun fire insurance comes from old times when, after big fires, people or companies collected small payments so they would help pay to rebuild if a fire destroyed a house. Those payments acted like insurance, so fire insurance today means 'a plan that pays money for loss caused by fire'.