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• life/car/travel/household, etc. insurance
• to have adequate insurance cover
• to take out insurance against fire and theft
• insurance premiums (= the regular payments made for insurance)

insurance

1. an arrangement with a company in which you pay them regular amounts of money and they agree to pay the costs, for example, if you die or are ill/sick, or if you lose or damage something
• see also National Insurance
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• life/car/travel/household, etc. insurance
• to have adequate insurance cover
• to take out insurance against fire and theft
• insurance premiums (= the regular payments made for insurance)
• Can you claim for the loss on your insurance?
2. the business of providing people with insurance
• an insurance broker/company
• He works in insurance.
3. money paid by or to an insurance company
• to pay insurance on your house
• When her husband died, she received £50 000 in insurance.
4. something you do to protect yourself against something bad happening in the future
• At that time people had large families as an insurance against some children dying.

Extra Examples

• Do you have fully comprehensive insurance?
• Does your personal accident insurance cover mountain rescue?
• He bought a new suit out of the insurance money.
• Her insurance is with General Accident.
• I haven’t paid the insurance yet this month.
• If you make more than two claims in any period of insurance you may lose your no claim bonus.
• Labour has increased national insurance contributions to pay for public services.
• Many people are covered by employer-provided health insurance.
• Millions of Americans lack adequate health insurance.
• Millions of people in the US are not covered by health insurance.
• More people are taking out insurance against the high cost of dental care.
• She set fire to her house and then claimed insurance.
• The company maintains liability insurance for its directors and officers.
• The contract requires me to arrange my own insurance.
• The court heard that he stood to gain millions in insurance on his wife.
• The insurance will pay for the damage.
• The travel agent recommended that I take out travel insurance.
• We claimed for the car repairs on the insurance.
• a compulsory health insurance system
• a monthly insurance premium
• a national insurance scheme
• a personal insurance policy
• compulsory insurance for personal injury to employees
• insurance cover for bodily injury to third parties
• rising insurance costs
• universal health insurance
• People used to have large families as an insurance against some children dying.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (originally as ensurance in the sense ‘ensuring, assurance, a guarantee’): from Old French enseurance, from enseurer, alteration of Old French aseurer, earlier form of assurer, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ (expressing change) + securus, from se- ‘without’ + cura ‘care’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 17th cent.