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Word: Insurance
Speech Type: Noun
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
ɪnˈʃʊərəns
ɪnˈʃɔːrəns
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
Short Definition:compensation arrangement for loss etc.
Examples:- many new borrowers take out insurance against unemployment or sickness
a thing providing protection against a possible eventuality
Short Definition:thing providing protection
Examples:- 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
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