Word Meanings - INSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one. 2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant

Additional info about word: INSURE

1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one. 2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

Related words: (words related to INSURE)

• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• SAFETY BICYCLE
  A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• STIPULATION
  A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant. (more info) 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• EVENTFUL
  Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.
• EVENTIDE
  The time of evening; evening. Spenser.
• INSURANCE
  1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• EVENTRATION
  A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen. A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude. The act af disemboweling.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• MERCHANTLY
  Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. Gauden.
• SAFETY CHAIN
  A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. A chain of sheet metal links
• EVENTLESS
  Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.
• SECURELY
  In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely. His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.
• INSURE
  1. To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one. 2. Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• INSTIPULATE
  See EXSTIPULATE
• REINSURE
  1. To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on. 2. To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an inssurance risk upon it. The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.