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noun. The act, business, or system of insuring.

noun. The state of being insured.

noun. A means of being insured.

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noun. An arrangement or agreement that protects someone from incurring future losses, as from damage, theft, illness, or death, especially a contract that transfers the risk of a specified loss to another party in exchange for the payment of a premium.

noun. The sum or rate for which such a contract insures something.

noun. The periodic premium paid for this coverage.

noun. A protective measure.

adjective. Being a point or score that increases one competitor's lead enough to prevent the opponent from achieving a tie with one more score.

noun. The act of insuring or assuring against loss; a system of business by which a company or corporation (called an insurance company, or, rarely, assurance company or society) guarantees the insured to a specified extent and under stipulated conditions against pecuniary loss arising from such contingencies as loss of or damage to property by fire or the efforts to extinguish fire (fire-insurance), or by shipwreck or disaster at sea (marine insurance), or by explosion, breakage, or other accidents to property, or the loss of future earnings, either through disablement (accident-insurance) or through death (life-insurance), etc. Also called assurance.

noun. Specifically In law, a contract by which one party, for an agreed consideration (which is proportioned to the risk involved), undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified thing, from specified causes.

noun. The premium paid for insuring property, life, etc.

noun. Engagement; betrothal.

noun. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

noun. The premium paid for insuring property or life.

noun. The sum for which life or property is insured.

noun. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.

noun. Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution.

noun. insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person.

noun. a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called whole life insurance.

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noun. See under Fire.

noun. a broker or agent who effects insurance.

noun. a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.

noun. a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured.

noun. See under Life.

noun. A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.

noun. The business of providing insurance.

noun. Metaphoric: Any attempt to anticipate an unfavorable event.

noun. Blackjack: A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.

noun. An insurance policy

noun. written contract or certificate of insurance

noun. protection against future loss

noun. promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company

"I want to see Randy answer this question: 1. Accepting arguendo that mandating a person to buy health insurance is not regulation of commerce, there is no question that the rest of the bill is regulating the interstate market in health insurance*."

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