Guaranty Definition

gărən-tē
guaranties
noun
guaranties
A pledge committing a person to the payment of another's debt or the fulfillment of another's obligation in the event of default.
Webster's New World
Something given or held as security.
Webster's New World
The act of providing such security.
American Heritage
An agreement that secures the existence or maintenance of something.
Webster's New World
A guarantee, as for a product or service.
A new refrigerator still under guaranty.
American Heritage
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verb
guaranties

Obsolete spelling of guarantee.

Wiktionary
To provide a guaranty for.
American Heritage

Guarantee.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Guaranty

Noun

Singular:
guaranty
Plural:
guaranties

Origin of Guaranty

  • From Anglo-Norman guarantie, from Old French guarantie (“protection, defense”), from Old French garantir, guarantir (“to warrant, vouch for something”), from Old French garant, guarant, warant (“a warrant; warranter, supporter, defender, protector”), from Frankish *warand, *warjand (“a warrant”), from Frankish *warjan (“to fend for, designate something as true, vouch for”), from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”). Cognate with Middle Low German warent, warend (“a warrant”), German gewähren (“to grant”). More at warrant. Compare guarantee, warranty.

    From Wiktionary

  • Anglo-Norman guarantie from Old French from garant, guarant warrant of Germanic origin wer-4 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Guaranty Sentence Examples

  • The first railway in the Philippines was the line from Manila to Dagupan (120 m.) which was built by an English corporation under a guaranty of the Spanish government and was opened in 1892.

  • Emergency assessments, not to exceed 2%, may be made whenever necessary to pay in full the depositors in an insolvent bank; if the guaranty fund is impaired to such a degree that it is not made up by the 2% emergency assessment, the state banking board issues certificates of indebtedness which draw 6% interest and which are paid out of the assessment.

  • Other prominent buildings are the Masonic Temple, the Chamber of Commerce, the Lumber Exchange, the Bank of Commerce, the Auditorium; the buildings of the Metropolitan Life (formerly the Guaranty), the Security Bank, the Northwestern National Bank, the First National Bank, the Andrus, the New York Life, and the Young Men's Christian Association; Hotel Radisson and West Hotel.

  • Regardless of this provision, however, the civil code denies the right of an appeal from an inferior court in cases that have been tried by a jury, and in which the amount claimed does not exceed $20, and the courts have decided that this denial is not in conflict with the constitution; but in at least one instance an appeal was allowed because of the constitutional guaranty, and that guaranty has doubtless had much influence on judicial legislation.

  • The unique feature of the banking system (with amendments adopted by the second legislature becoming effective on the 11th of June 1909) is a fund for the guaranty of deposits.

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