Usually means: Provide financial protection against loss.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. insure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. insure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. insure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. insure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. insure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Insure, insure: Wordnik
  7. insure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. insure: Wiktionary
  9. insure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. insure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. insure: Dictionary.com
  12. insure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. insure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Insure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Insure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. insure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. insure: Rhymezone
  18. insure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. insure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. insure: Free Dictionary
  21. insure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. insure: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. insure: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. insure: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. insure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. insure: Legal dictionary
  3. insure: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. insure: Sound Alike Words
  2. insure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. insure: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insure: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See insured as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
verb:  (chiefly US, transitive, dated) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee. [(transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.]

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