Insurance
[ɪn'ʃʊər(ə)ns] or [ɪn'ʃʊrəns]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
Edited by Johanna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.
(n.) The premium paid for insuring property or life.
(n.) The sum for which life or property is insured.
(n.) A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.
Checker: Maisie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Assurance, security against loss.
Typist: Virginia
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Examples
- Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To govern a life insurance company, Mr. Steffens argued, was just as much government as to run a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The praise of mankind was his swing; philanthropy was his insurance office. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They, I suppose, will have to give all kinds of evidence about the smash-up of The Eunice before the insurance money will be paid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He also visited the offices of the large public service and insurance companies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I believe he's going into an insurance business, or something. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He died when he was only fifty, leaving his wife and children provided for by a heavy insurance on his life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He got an insurance map of New York City, and studied the business section from Wall to Canal Streets and from Broadway over to the East River. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- If her crown of life had been an insurance policy, she would have had an opportunity to collect on it the first time she fell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Its first use was as a symbol in the code by which vessels were graded in the register of shipping kept by Lloyd’s, the originators of marine insurance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was, however, no insurance. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This machine automatically feeds and addresses public service bills, insurance premium notices and receipts, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Johanna