insurances
Meaning of insurances
- an arrangement by which a company or the state undertakes to provide a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a specified premium.
many new borrowers take out insurance against unemployment or sickness
- a thing providing protection against a possible eventuality.
jackets were hung on the back of their chairs, insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning
a marquee was hired as an insurance against the weather
late Middle English (originally as ensurance in the sense ‘ensuring, assurance, a guarantee’): from Old French enseurance, from enseurer (see ensure). insurance (sense 1) dates from the mid 17th century.
Information about insurances
- It is a name.
- The singular form of insurances is: insurance.
- Languages in which insurances is used:
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Hyphenation of insurances
in-sur-ances
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- insurances is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
insurances synonyms
Meaning security or protection against a loss or other financial burden:
Meaning compensation for harm or loss:
Meaning the state of being free from danger or threat:
Meaning money given to support an undertaking that someone will perform a duty, pay their debts, etc.; a guarantee:
Meaning protection by insurance against a liability, loss, or accident:
Meaning insurance, specifically life insurance:
Meaning the action of protecting, or the state of being protected:
Meaning a measure taken to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable:
Meaning a place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger:
Meaning a measure taken in advance to prevent something dangerous, unpleasant, or inconvenient from happening:
Meaning the action of providing or supplying something for use:
Meaning the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells:
Meaning a formal assurance (typically in writing) that certain conditions will be fulfilled, especially that a product will be repaired or replaced if not of a specified quality:
Meaning a written guarantee, issued to the purchaser of an article by its manufacturer, promising to repair or replace it if necessary within a specified period of time:
Meaning a thing placed at the rear of something as a barrier or support:
Anagrams of insurances
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