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guarantee

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Guarantee is a legal term more comprehensive and of higher import than either warranty or "security". It most commonly designates a private transaction by means of which one person, to obtain some trust, confidence or credit for another, engages to be answerable ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a constitution guarantees sth (= says it must happen or exist ) ▪ Hungary's constitution guarantees freedom of religion. ensure/guarantee sb’s safety ▪ There were few laws or regulations to ensure the safety of workers. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: warrant , warrantee , warranty ] a pledge that something will happen or that something is true; "there is no guarantee that they are not lying" ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guarantee \Guar`an*tee"\, n.; pl. Guarantees . [For guaranty, prob. influenced by words like assignee, lessee, etc. See Guaranty , and cf. Warrantee .] In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, alterted (perhaps via Spanish garante ), from earlier garrant "warrant that the title to a property is true," early 15c., from Old French garant "defender, protector," from Germanic (see warrant (n.)). For form evolution, see gu- . Originally "person ...

Usage examples of guarantee.

Black and Brennan had always believed that the Constitution guaranteed all those rights to American citizens and that state legislatures could not abridge them.

The ecotheorists further take this metabiological absolutizing and not only attempt to explain culture with its terms, but also necessarily see culture as a lamentable deviation from those terms: all conclusions guaranteed by the prior absolutizing.

Surveys reveal that the effectiveness of print advertising is greatly enhanced when the guarantee or warranty is substantiated.

When they picked up on Pablo Acosta in Ojinaga, Amado was sent to work with him - to guarantee the safety of the investments.

What formed the strength of the apologetic philosophy was the proclamation that Christianity both contained the highest truth, as men already supposed it to be and as they had discovered it in their own minds, and the absolutely reliable guarantee that was desired for this truth.

So instead of producing the authoritarian institutions that were the inevitable outcome of the ferocious power struggles and ideological confusions characteristic of social evolution on Earth, Jevlenese society developed as a kind of patronized anarchy, secure in the guarantee of unlimited goods and products indefinitely, and the total absence of threats.

In this position, he could guarantee that Avion or the Kin sha never forgot their intolerable mistakes of the past.

I begged him to act as if my interests were at stake, and promised to guarantee all expenses.

Ergo, they drop us in Castle Numanteal in a way guaranteed to scare the bejabbers out of the locals.

The hard humping, shit kicking former death-row convict has a rider in his contract that guarantees no biker is turned away from his shows.

But none of them could guarantee him a safe passage to any port on the blockaded coast.

State, which forty years before had been admitted to the Union, against sectional resistance to the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and specifically denominated in the treaty for the acquisition of Louisiana, now, because her Governor refused to furnish troops for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing States, became the subject of special hostility and the object of extraordinary efforts for her subjugation.

And forasmuch as Something and Nothing would then become actual, as distinguished from nominal correlatives, we could have no guarantee that, in an absolute or transcendental sense, it may not be possible, although it is inconceivable, for Something to become Nothing or Nothing Something.

If she had come to me, I could have really made her so, though it is a difficult process, and science has not advanced far enough for us to be able to guarantee the sex of the child.

The greatest noble of Bologna paid court to her, and Nina told them that they might do so, but that she could not guarantee their safety from the jealous dagger of Ricla.