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assurance, coverage, indemnity, protection, safeguard, security, warranty, allowance, backing, cover, guarantee, provision

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in⋅sur⋅ance

[in-shoo

r-uh

ns, -shur-]

–noun

1.	the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.

2.	coverage by contract in which one party agrees to indemnify or reimburse another for loss that occurs under the terms of the contract.

3.	the contract itself, set forth in a written or printed agreement or policy.

4.	the amount for which anything is insured.

5.	an insurance premium.

6.	any means of guaranteeing against loss or harm: Taking vitamin C is viewed as an insurance against catching colds.

–adjective

7.	of or pertaining to a score that increases a team's lead and insures that the lead will be held if the opposing team should score once more: The home run gave the team an insurance run, making the score 7-5.

Origin:
1545–55; insure + -ance

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Language Translation for : insurance

Spanish:

seguro,

German:

die Versicherung; Versicherungs-…,

Japanese:

保険

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in·sur·ance (ĭn-shŏŏr'əns) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. The act, business, or system of insuring.
2. The state of being insured.
3. A means of being insured.
4. Coverage by a contract binding a party to indemnify another against specified loss in return for premiums paid.
5. The sum or rate for which such a contract insures something.
6. The periodic premium paid for this coverage.
1. Coverage by a contract binding a party to indemnify another against specified loss in return for premiums paid.
2. The sum or rate for which such a contract insures something.
3. The periodic premium paid for this coverage.
A protective measure: biking helmets that provide insurance against a head injury.

adj. Sports
Of, relating to, or being a score that increases a team's lead enough to prevent the opposing team from tying the game with one more score: an insurance run.

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insurance

1553, "engagement to marry," a variant of ensurance (see ensure). Commercial sense of "security against loss or death in exchange for payment" is from 1651. Assurance was the older term for this (late 16c.).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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insurance
noun
1.	promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company
2.	written contract or certificate of insurance; "you should have read the small print on your policy" [syn: policy]
3.	protection against future loss [syn: indemnity]

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Insurance

As*sur"ance\, n. [OE. assuraunce, F. assurance, fr. assurer. See Assure.]

1. The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. --Acts xvii. 31.

Assurances of support came pouring in daily. --Macaulay.

2. The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.

Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. --Heb. x. 22.

3. Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.

Brave men meet danger with assurance. --Knolles.

Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. --Locke.

4. Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.

5. Betrothal; affiance. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.

6. Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.

Note: Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. See Insurance.

7. (Law) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

Note: In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. --Blackstone.