insure
Significat (Anglès)
- (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
- (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
- (US, alt-of, alternative, dated, transitive) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee.
Conceptes
Sinònims
make sure of something
quarantee
make certain
secure from
give confidence to
Traduccions
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ɪnˈʃʊə/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
First attested in c. 1440, as a variant of Middle English ensuren (from Anglo-Norman enseurer, itself from en- + seür (“sure”), probably influenced by Old French asseürer (“to assure”)); took on its particular sense of "make safe against loss by payment of premiums" in 1635, replacing assure. Doublet of ensure.
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