to insure
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3.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈʃʊr/
:
asegurar
- Before you travel, make sure to insure your luggage in case it gets lost.
- insure against loss
- fully insured
- privately insured
On top of that, they're expensive to insure and repair.
- On top of that, they're expensive to insure and repair.
- So most people need to insure their home whether they want to or not.
- Tesla makes you pay them to insure your Tesla to get car insurance, right?
- So they are not that open to insuring collectibles like this.
- It was a showroom, car showroom that just insured the car.
- I think that it is a risk, it is quantifiable and you can insure against it.
- The private insurance market was not interested in insuring older people who were bad risks.
- The SIPIC insures your brokerage accounts against losses due to failure of your stockbroker.
- So for normal people, you know why I have a law that says my genes can't prevent my insurance company from insuring me.
- But I mean, look, you've got a title policy that, that, that that insures you against fraud.
- Lloyd's of London insures each ass cheek of my jeans.
- It's not big, it's not essential, and if you're insuring that and not other things, you're making a mistake.
- We had to insure it through a company in Germany because the Greeks couldn't like compare it to anything to insure it.
- Although, although, although I don't know who would insure them, maybe frauders.
Examples
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You know you can insure a home against fire, right?
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On top of that, they're expensive to insure and repair.
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However, I would insure the ring.
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But it's also very expensive to maintain and insure.
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The house had to go on the market to insure the loan on the London flat.
Fiction book (2001) -
After all, it's fully insured.
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The private insurance market was not interested in insuring older people who were bad risks.
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In addition, travelers should ensure that their equipment is insured against loss and/or damage.
Academic text (2012) -
Besides teaching history, Jack worked part-time for a firm that insured camps and resorts across the Northeast.
Fiction book (1991) -
Indeed, the ABE describes its mission as "Insuring Your Life's Needs."
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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1.9
To protect someone, for example by guarding them in a game
How Protected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Insure comes from the same idea as the simple word sure and the word secure, which mean 'safe'. A helpful way to remember the financial meaning is to think of paying money to make your car or house 'safe'—that is why to insure something is to buy 'protection' against loss.