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guaranteed

[gar-uhn-tee]

noun

a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.

guaranty (defs. 1, 2).

something that assures a particular outcome or condition: Wealth is no guarantee of happiness.

a person who gives a guarantee or guaranty; guarantor.

a person to whom a guarantee is made.

verb (used with object)

to secure, as by giving or taking security.

to make oneself answerable for (something) on behalf of someone else who is primarily responsible: to guarantee the fulfillment of a contract.

to undertake to ensure for another, as rights or possessions.

to serve as a warrant or guaranty for.

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to engage to protect or indemnify: to guarantee a person against loss.

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to engage (to do something).

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to promise (usually followed by a clause as object): I guarantee that I'll be there.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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Origin:
1670–80; alteration of guaranty

Related forms

non·guar·an·tee, noun

pre·guar·an·tee, noun, verb (used with object), -teed, -tee·ing.

qua·si-guar·an·teed, adjective

re·guar·an·tee, noun, verb (used with object), -teed, -tee·ing.

su·per·guar·an·tee, noun, verb, -teed, -tee·ing.

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un·guar·an·teed, adjective

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Can be confused: guarantee, guaranty, warrantee, warranty.

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Example Sentences

Freedoms are only guaranteed on campus-and the guarantee is not credible.

But it is an illusion that taxpayers can avoid pain in a guaranteed system.

Proper camera operation cannot be guaranteed when using other cards.

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Freedoms are only guaranteed on campus-and the guarantee is not credible.

But it is an illusion that taxpayers can avoid pain in a guaranteed system.

Proper camera operation cannot be guaranteed when using other cards.

Most scientists would never pursue an experiment that was almost guaranteed to fail.

Bring your child to the planetarium for a show guaranteed to please.

Even so, it would be best to plan ahead and order tickets early to be guaranteed of a seat.

The setup is guaranteed to stop any thief without access to either a pair of scissors or a small screwdriver.

Still, that doesn't mean offering no-loan aid is guaranteed to bring in droves of qualified low-income students.

Similar to how all citizens are guaranteed a basic education with the option to supplement it on the private market.

With literally thousands of crabs spawning at once, dislodged eggs were guaranteed.

Whether they are the first sleeping pills guaranteed not to be addictive remains to be seen.

Especially since the success of the mission was not guaranteed at that point.

It's the world's first dark-sky park-so great summer stargazing is almost guaranteed.

But the mangled limbs, burned flesh, shredded muscles and missing body parts that once guaranteed death now need to be patched up.

But the days of bidding wars and bonuses guaranteed for two or even three years are suddenly over.

Farmers are not penalized if the market price ultimately rises higher than the guaranteed minimum price.

The article is accurate and honest and if you read moronic comments, you can be guaranteed it comes from an animal hating newfie.

It's numbers were already so low it was virtually guaranteed to die-out.

Regional and metro edition circulations are not guaranteed and are to be used only as a basis for determining rates.

For one, doing so is pretty much guaranteed to void your warranty.

Its employees are guaranteed an inflation-linked pension so it meets that promise by buying inflation-linked bonds.

Quick pitch, freestanding and guaranteed watertight.

Rate-setting mechanisms allow monopoly utilities to operate at guaranteed profit margins, as if this were in the public interest.

The theater district is lined with finds guaranteed to entice last-minute shoppers.

Then hit the gas, and you're guaranteed to forget about any heartbreak you've ever had.

Debt issued by state-owned banks is guaranteed by the government, reducing their financing costs and hence their lending rates.

Guaranteed watertight construction with fully taped fly, taped perimeter seam, welded corners and welded guy clip anchors.

Health care must be guaranteed as a right, not a commodity, and include reproductive health care and contraception.

Though the books are as thick as phone directories, the story moves quickly, and it's almost guaranteed to surprise you.

Such is the seething state of the drugs debate that more or less anything he said was guaranteed to enrage somebody.

Those working to permanently block the plan say such a conservation goal cannot be guaranteed.

Our dream app: air-dropping pizzas to our patio in five minutes or less, guaranteed.

The world is full of alternative locations guaranteed to discourage the soft-bellied young of today.

But if one wormed its way in-which happened a lot-you were guaranteed to get stung.

Even then, such access at a reasonable cost will not be guaranteed.

Copying guaranteed that each generation transmitted canonical texts to the next.

Jointly guaranteed bonds sold to raise money for the current bail-out funds are being eagerly snapped up by investors.

Introducing livestock to its range is guaranteed to broaden its diet even further.

Suburban sprawl has guaranteed high cost of housing per unit of land.

German renewable energy producers are guaranteed a certain price for wind and solar power.

He is guaranteed to fight a colourful campaign but is unlikely to win.

Deconstruct the events leading to this tragedy and find out how bribery and corruption virtually guaranteed the disaster.

The owners also warn that currently guaranteed contracts might no longer be valid if it is upheld.

Information well-organized and sustainability guaranteed.

Family control is guaranteed by a complex web of cross-shareholdings.

Guaranteed bonuses at big banks have made a comeback, despite the public outcry over the use of taxpayer money.

After registering, make sure to make your hotel reservations as soon as possible to ensure you receive the guaranteed room rate.

Give a journalist anything that sounds new, and you're guaranteed to get coverage.

Chrysler guaranteed dealers who are losing their franchises that it would find others to take their unsold vehicles.

Move to the pension system and you have a guaranteed retirement income for life.

Greece may have been guaranteed enough money to deal with its immediate funding needs, but two questions linger.

However, this year's maximum is pretty much guaranteed to be the lowest ever recorded in human history.

They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops.

Anonymity is guaranteed and identifying details are always masked.

Thanks to the game's popularity, the flick is all but guaranteed to do ridiculous sales.

Guaranteed issue refers to the requirement that an issuer must accept every applicant for coverage.

The government has raised the guaranteed prices it pays for produce.

Carbon sequestration is pretty much guaranteed to never be an economical solution at the volumes necessary to make a difference.

Now she pulls into a guaranteed parking spot and plugs in her brand-new electric car to a battery recharger.

If they invite me to campus, a new suit would be a big plus, but of course nothing is guaranteed.

His coalition government has added its own giveaways such as guaranteed pensions.

Twenty-six new products guaranteed to raise your game.

Exposure to multiple toxins is virtually guaranteed for modern humans.

In this way, the outfit that owned the film would be guaranteed compensation for every use of the copyrighted material.

Offer the right after-dinner drinks, however, and the evening is guaranteed to prosper.

Brucker said, people who have guaranteed financial packages tend to take longer to complete degrees.

Nominal legal provisions calling for minimum wages and guaranteed rest days are routinely ignored.

The ramps are guaranteed for a whole year, which amounts to a single use.

Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking.

Second-career ministry students are virtually guaranteed to make less in their new careers after completing their education.

The reason such margins are possible is that the readership, though small, is almost guaranteed.

BP warned that success was not guaranteed and that it could fail at any moment.

Jobs are so scarce that even the best candidates are not guaranteed a position.

Some pretend to work, and have guaranteed fire proof positions.

Guaranteed fame and fortune goes to the first person capable of doing that.

One, it comes with so many different parts that you're virtually guaranteed to misplace some and lose its functionality.

It was a move guaranteed to simplify life for her admirers, who have been having difficulty adding to their collections.

Tech training is a guaranteed investment that no university should ignore.

Many of them are still implicitly guaranteed by their municipal owners.

During the peak season it is almost guaranteed that the tourist will see or be able to cage-dive with a white shark.

My friend can eat popcorn and never have trouble, some are guaranteed an attack if they eat the stuff.

With all the sampling, remixing and mashing up in these songs, you're pretty much guaranteed to find something you like.

Teaching has the qualities guaranteed to make a job stressful: high responsibility and low control.

Much of the debt that students are taking on is provided or guaranteed by the government.

He explained that the book contained spells for everything from cures for blindness to charms guaranteed to spark romance.

However, if he initially picks a door with a goat behind it he is guaranteed to win the car.

TelaDoc subscribers are guaranteed to hear back from a doctor within three hours of their phone call.

Many of the companies in this sector are quite young and consequently, their survival is not guaranteed.

Whites, no matter how lazy or dim, were all but guaranteed a secure job at a state-owned firm.

Work published there is guaranteed hundreds of thousands of readers and lots of street cred.

Blogging under a pseudonym is not guaranteed to give you cover.

He lamented that whatever tech or geek related site he goes to, he's almost guaranteed to find a post related to.

They argued that the equity-risk premium, as the name suggests, was a reward for risk and could not be guaranteed.

But for those arriving later, it's not guaranteed that you'll get one.

Again he starred but, because of his caste, was refused the teaching job that his exam results should have guaranteed.

It is the first time the agency has guaranteed a loan to a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol refinery.

Central banks and governments implicitly guaranteed this debt, riding to the rescue whenever a repayment crisis loomed.

Denmark offers extensive training, big employment subsidies and guaranteed jobs.

But that counts all guaranteed debt-the equivalent, in home insurance, of the value of houses covered rather than premiums paid.

Although the favourite, he is not guaranteed to win the primary.

Shipping deadly nuclear waste off to the desert and sticking it in the ground is almost guaranteed to make people forget about.

Either the banks need to have adequate equity capital or their deposits have to be guaranteed by an undoubted borrower.

One was guaranteed to upset every right-thinking pessimistic economist:.

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Word Origin & History

guarantee

1679, perhaps via Sp. garante, from O.Fr. guarantie, pp. of fem. guarantir "to protect," from guarant "warrant," from Frank. *warjand-s, from P.Gmc. *war-, from PIE base *wer- "to cover" (see warrant). For form evolution, see gu-. Originally "person

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giving something as security," sense of the "pledge" itself (which is properly a guarranty) first recorded 1786. The verb is attested from 1791.

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