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Guarantee

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.

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Verb group 10

Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Assure 84% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Ensure 84% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Secure 84% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Secure 84% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Vouch 84% connected

To call; to summon.

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Vouch 84% connected

To call; to summon.

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Assurance 76% connected

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

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Assure 76% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Back 76% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Collateral 76% connected

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

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Endorse 76% connected

Same as Indorse.

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Indorse 76% connected

To cover the back of; to load or burden.

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Pledge 76% connected

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…

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Plight 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

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Promise 76% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Verify 76% connected

To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize.

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Manner of action 12

Bail 76% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Certify 76% connected

To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Doom 76% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

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Endorse 76% connected

Same as Indorse.

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Indorse 76% connected

To cover the back of; to load or burden.

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Insure 76% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Stipulate 76% connected

Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.

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Subvention 76% connected

The act of coming under.

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Underwrite 76% connected

To write under something else; to subscribe.

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Narrower term 3

Deposit 76% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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Security 76% connected

The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.

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Surety 76% connected

The state of being sure; certainty; security.

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Derivationally related 6

Guarantor 74% connected

One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.

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Guarantor 74% connected

One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.

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Insure 74% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Insure 74% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Undertake 74% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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Undertake 74% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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Synonym 10

Assure 92% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Ensure 92% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Guaranty 92% connected

In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Insure 92% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Secure 92% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Undertake 92% connected

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vouch 92% connected

To call; to summon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Warrant 92% connected

That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which on…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Warrantee 92% connected

The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Warranty 92% connected

A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by t…

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