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What does insure mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word insure? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
  3. (chiefly US, transitive) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee.
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To hold him responsible for the misdeeds of his independent contractor would be to make him insure the safety of his lift.
Failure to insure a vehicle could mean that someone badly injured in an accident, or the family of someone killed, might go unprovided for.
She made it a point to rearrange donated canned goods in the outer vestibule to insure that Jimmy's heard her enter.
Each gallon of water requires approximately 8 square feet of area to insure proper infiltration.
But what players had the wherewithal to insure against potential energy losses for the entire State of California?
Members of the nobility who would insure the efficient use of church lands and wealth would henceforth manage monasteries and nunneries.

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