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🛡️ To protect financially ✅ To make certain
to insure

to insure

16 3.0
To make sure something happens
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈʃʊr/
  • Formal
translation icon : garantizar
  • History suggests that alternative mechanisms would emerge to insure depositors and minimize bank risk.
  • insure your life
  • insure for the entire
  • insured children

So what part was someone today that insures the passenger, the car sensors, all that stuff.

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Examples

  • We will have more than enough to insure they enjoy a comfortable life.

    The Mighty Macs (2011)

  • There have been a number of attempts to mitigate risk or insure against problems.

    Blog text (25)

  • So 50 people might insure my house.

    Inside Job (2010)

  • Social insurance refers to government programs that insure people against risk.

  • We must insure our own salvation, if nothing else.

    Wesley (2009)

  • You might want to insure it if you've got a lot of it.

  • How on earth will they force health insurance companies to insure everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions?

    Blog text (27)

  • State governments are also involved, forcing employers to insure workers for injury, death, and disability on the job.

    Blog text (8)

  • Look, maybe you don't think your house is going to burn down, but shouldn't you insure it just in case it does?

  • You should insure your car to protect yourself from financial loss in case of an accident.

Synonyms

to see
vsto insure
∞ 1.0

To check whether something is true or has happened

focuses on guaranteeing that it will happen rather than only checking
to guarantee
vsto insure
∞ 2.8

To promise that something will happen or work

focuses on making certainty rather than giving a promise
to ensure
vsto insure
910 2.8

Make sure that something happens or is true

is the same idea phrased differently
to assure
vsto insure
198 3.5

To make sure that something will happen

uses the same meaning but with slight wording change
to see to it
vsto insure
107 3.5

Make sure something gets done

is more about ensuring the outcome than doing the work
to warrant
vsto insure
24 6.5

To promise that something is true or will work as promised

is broader, meaning to make something certain rather than give an official guarantee

How Certain

to insure
  • Formal
16 3.0
to expect
∞ 1.0
to hope
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

insure infinitive
insured past
insured past participle
insuring present participle
insures third person singular

Etymology

Insure comes from the same root as sure, meaning 'certain' or 'safe'. So to insure that something happens is to make it 'certain' or 'sure', which is why we use the word when we mean 'guarantee' or 'make sure'.