Insured
[ɪn'ʃʊəd] or [ɪn'ʃʊrd]
Definition
(noun.) a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc..
(adj.) covered by insurance; 'an insured risk'; 'all members of the film cast and crew are insured' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Insure
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Examples
- MY gratitude will be insured immediately by any information tending to that end, and HERS must be gained by it in time. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This money was sent down by the waggon, and insured by the carriers at an additional expense of three quarters per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Alignment is insured by a center guide hole through which the type end of the lever passes in striking the paper. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Taking the whole kingdom at an average, nineteen houses in twenty, or rather, perhaps, ninety-nine in a hundred, are not insured from fire. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am not too much of a poet to neglect business, and The Eunice was heavily insured. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- These dispositions, he said, faithfully sustained, insured the enemy's speedy evacuation of Chattanooga for want of food and forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sea-risk is more alarming to the greater part of people; and the proportion of ships insured to those not insured is much greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Quite overpowered by the magnificence of these transactions, I asked him where the ships he insured mostly traded to at present? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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