indemnify
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈdɛm.nɪ.faɪ/
indemnify
- To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
- 1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101 ↗:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- 1670, Sir William Temple, letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple, page 101 ↗:
(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury - 1906, Civil Code of the State of California, page 405:
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
- 1906, Civil Code of the State of California, page 405:
- German: sicherstellen
- Portuguese: proteger, assegurar
- Russian: страхова́ть
- Spanish: asegurar
- German: schadlos halten, wiedergutmachen, Indemnität erteilen, entschädigen
- Portuguese: indenizar
- Russian: возмеща́ть
- Spanish: indemnizar
indemnify (indemnifies, present participle indemnifying; past and past participle indemnified)
- (obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
- 1583, Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries, i. 63a
- 1593, Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard, E ij
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