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.]
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In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
His interest seemed to be a guarantee for his zeal.
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One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
--South.Note: Guarantor is the correct form in this sense.
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(Law) The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.
Syn: Guarantee, Warranty.
Usage: A guarantee is an engagement that a certain act will be done or not done in future. A warranty is an engagement as to the qualities or title of a thing at the time of the engagement.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "guarantees".
On the other hand, at least some of this might be covered in the form of preferential trade accommodations, debt relief, commercial credits, loan guarantees, or agricultural donations.
And Paul Choy guarantees to work for Rothwell-Gornt for at least two years.
This system guarantees Japan a continuous supply of raw material, set up at your whim and controlled by Japanese.
The Victoria guarantees the Ho-Pak's depositors, guarantees the Struan- General Stores takeover and guarantees to be in business for the next hundred and twenty years.
The Victoria guarantees the Ho-Pak's depositors, guarantees the Struan-General Stores takeover and guarantees to be in business for the next hundred and twenty years.
Maybe she was getting the point that the world was much more dangerous now, that there were no guarantees, that her own time could be short.
They are, of course, insisting on guarantees of protection for no less than seven years.
He guarantees she's completely trustworthy, she can brush your hair, bath you, can look after your European clothes, and she's my gift to you while she's with you in Japan.
He guarantees safe conduct, gives 'em good dry lodgings, food, wiv all the sak`e they kin drink and women to spare.
At length Struan had agreed and they had fixed another meeting in a month when Struan's would present a simple contract specifying their guarantees and also dossiers on the two men.
I would give guarantees not to flaunt this in your face, would "gratefully accept your kind invitation to assume control," would not fortify them against you.
The great Edict of Technological Control - the means by which the Seven had kept change at bay for more than a century - was to be relaxed, the House of Representatives at Weimar reopened, in return for guarantees of population controls.
Starting in 1983, the United States provided economic aid to Iraq in the form of Commodities Credit Corporation guarantees to purchase U.
They thought they had guarantees of American military support in 1991 and 1996 as well and were deeply disappointed.
For them, an invasion is the only option that makes sense because it virtually guarantees that Saddam's regime will be overthrown, it promises to do so quickly (as fast as U.