Look up: insurance

1. Insurance
   A way of providing for the financial consequences of e.g. theft or fire by paying a regular sum (premium)
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2. Insurance
   A contract in which the recipient of agreed payments agrees to compensate the payer in the event of certain events i.e. loss, damage, injury, death, etc.
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3. insurance
   [n] - promise of reimbursement in the case of loss
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4. Insurance
   The player bets that the dealer has a blackjack when the dealer's up card is an ace.
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5. Insurance
   A contract in which payment of premiums covers the insured against something which may, or may not... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/insurance.htm?id=755&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of insurance'>more</a>
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6. insurance
   Contract guaranteeing compensation to the payer of a premium against loss by fire, death, accident, and so on, which is known as assurance in the case of a fixed sum and insurance where the payment...
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7. insurance
   A contract taken out with an insurer to protect against loss from a perceived risk. The person taking out the insurance is called the insured. Payments for the policy are called premiums
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8. Insurance
   The funding of insurance for maintained schools is currently governed by Regulations under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. LEAs can retain funding centrally for insurance within their Local Schools Budget. They may delegate resources for insurance to all or some schools. Schools can sti...
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9. insurance
   a contract whereby a person or legal entity,the insurer,guarantees to indemnify wholly or partially another person,the insured,in consideration of a lump sum payment or payments at regular intervals known as premiums,for loss suffered by the insured due to the occurrence of the hazard specified in the contract Category: Insurance
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10. Insurance
    an important and sometimes controversial issue in the conservation world. Proper insurance to enable full reinstatement in the event of loss is now a condition of most grant awards, but many listed buildings have no insurance, or are not properly insured. (see condition of average) Unlike t...
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11. Insurance
    There are four main types of insurance involved with most common air freighter operations matters.
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12. Insurance
    Are policies owners can purchase to guarantee compensation for specific losses or damages.
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13. Insurance
    In·sur'ance noun [ From Insure .] 1. 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...
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14. insurance
    Coverage by contract whereby one part indemnifies or guarantees another against loss by a specified contingency. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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15. insurance
    noun protection against future loss
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16. Insurance
    Guarding against property loss or damage making payments in the form of premiums to an insurance company, which pays an agreed-upon sum to the insured in the event of loss.
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17. Insurance
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) The premiu...
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18. insurance
    a system under which the insurer, for a consideration usually agreed upon in advance, promises to reimburse the insured or to render services to the ... [18 related articles]
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19. Insurance
    A financial arrangement to reduce risk. The purchaser of insurance pays a fixed amount, in return for which the seller agrees to pay some larger amount if an unlikely adverse event occurs.
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20. INSURANCE
    A system to make large financial losses more affordable by pooling the risks of many individuals and business entities and transferring them to an insurance company or other large group in return for a premium.
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21. Insurance
    protection against a specific loss, such as fire, wind etc., over a period of time that is secured by the payment of a regularly scheduled premium.
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22. Insurance
    Insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the insurance; the insured, or ...
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23. insurance
    insurance or assurance,device for indemnifying or guaranteeing an individual against loss. Reimbursement is made from a fund to which many individuals exposed to the same risk have contributed certain specified amounts, called premiums. Payment for an individual loss, divided among many, does not fa...
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24. Insurance
    It is a contract between one party to compansate monetarily the other party on happening of an event for which the fee was being paid periodically. Such contract is the insurance policy and the party compansating is called the Insurer and the fee paid is called the insurance premium. Alltogether it ...
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25. Insurance
    Insurance is a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called a premium, one party undertakes to indemnify another against certain risks. The party undertaking to make the indemnity is called the insurer or underwriter, and the one to be indemnified the assured or insured. The instrument b...
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