insure

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verb

Insure is defined as to provide insurance or to make sure of something.

An example of to insure is for Geico Insurance to provide plans for its customers.

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insure

transitive verb

-·sured′, -·sur′ing

to contract to be paid or to pay money in the case of loss of (life, property, etc.); take out or issue insurance on (something or someone)
to make sure or certain; guarantee; ensure: measures to insure accuracy
to make safe; protect; ensure: safety devices to insure workers against accidents

Origin of insure

Middle English ensuren: see ensure

to give or take out insurance

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insure

verb

in·sured, in·sur·ing, in·sures

verb

transitive

a. To provide or arrange insurance for: a company that insures homeowners and businesses.
b. To acquire or have insurance for: insured herself against losses; insured his car for theft.
To make sure, certain, or secure. See Usage Note at assure.

verb

intransitive

To buy or sell insurance.

Origin of insure

Middle English ensuren to assure from Old French enseurer possibly variant of assurer ; see assure .

Related Forms:

in·sur′a·bil′i·ty
noun

in·sur′a·ble
adjective

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present insures, present participle insuring, simple past and past participle insured)

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.
I'm not insured against burglary.
(intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of ensure: To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
(perhaps nonstandard) Alternative form of assure: To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
He insured me that there would be no further delays.

Usage notes

(provide for compensation): Note that both the person taking out insurance and the company with whom the policy is taken are said to insure the risk.

Anagrams

inures, nursie, ursine

Origin

Recorded since c.1440, as a variant of Middle English ensuren (from Anglo-Norman enseurer, itself from en- "make" + Old French 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.

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insure - Computer Definition

To obtain an insurance policy on something.
Used in error to mean to make certain of something of something by taking necessary precautions. I vote for #1, exclusively. It makes me crazy when people talk about how some process or some such thing insures some result. I think that the only thing that insures something is an insurance policy, and even that only insures that somebody gets paid when the barn burns down or some such thing and even that assumes that the insurance company will actually live up to the terms of the policy and pay up. Oh, well, maybe it's just me utilizing my editorial privilege and ranting on and on and on in unnecessarily complex sentences. See also ensure and utilize.