The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guarantee \Guar"an*tee`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. guaranteed; p, pr. & vb. n. Guaranteeing.] [From Guarantee, n.] In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or in all events; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in
this Union a republican form of government.
--Constitution
of the U. S.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of guarantee English)
Usage examples of "guaranteeing".
He always drank one glass of red wine, always ordered mashed potatoes, and always overtipped, guaranteeing himself good service on his next visit.
In guaranteeing the non-payers, the State may, indeed, increase the number of borrowers, and thus raise the rate of interest (always to the prejudice of the tax-payer), but it has no power to increase the number of lenders, and the importance of the total of the loans.
In the New York area, White Castle began negotiations to purchase a slaughter house in hopes of guaranteeing a stable supply for its Castles in that area.
By midnight a treaty was signed, guaranteeing peace between the three countries, an indemnity to be paid in foodstuffs and magical foreign aid to help the stricken Frostingdungians through the winter and spring planting, and an alliance between Argonia and Ablemarle.
The password phrases were culled out of Other Side popular culture, guaranteeing that Karl, Walter, or Ahira could answer a challenge without having been given the response ahead of time.
Leatherwell will agree, in addition to guaranteeing your title to 95739-A, to purchase your output at four credits a ton, FOB his collection station—.
I proved that the letter was the description of a phenomenon, and inasmuch as all the empirical research was going in precisely that direction, I gave it, so to speak, the blessing of a mathematical proof, guaranteeing that this was the right track.
He brushes an unused pot with his bare hand, guaranteeing a frostnip blister.
With that knowledge in his data banks, Herkimer could easily see that although dictatorship might be good for a society, it wasn't good for the people, unless there were some way of guaranteeing their civil rights-in which case, it wasn't a complete dictatorship anymore, but was on the way to becoming something else.
A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs-microphones and lenses and so forth-are that much harder to spot.
A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs—microphones and lenses and so forth—are that much harder to spot.
Here, the two men presented her letters of credence signed by both King and Council, guaranteeing her safety whilst at court.
Was all this a punishment for screwing over-and thus guaranteeing the loss of-his only friend?