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Guarantee   /gˌɛrəntˈi/   Listen
Guarantee

noun
(pl. guarantees)
1.
A written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications.  Synonyms: warrant, warrantee, warranty.
2.
An unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true.
3.
A collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults.  Synonym: guaranty.
verb
(past & past part. guaranteed; pres. part. guaranteeing)
1.
Give surety or assume responsibility.  Synonym: vouch.
2.
Make certain of.  Synonyms: assure, ensure, insure, secure.  "Preparation will guarantee success!"
3.
Promise to do or accomplish.  Synonym: undertake.
4.
Stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of.  Synonym: warrant.  "I warrant this information"





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"Guarantee" Quotes from Famous Books



... mankind. Against them, to begin with! In the second place, those notes represent a medical and metaphysical theory. Against them, once more! In the third place, those notes are of my making; there is nothing but my assertion to the contrary, to guarantee that they are not fabrications. Remember what I told you on the moor—and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. No! my notes have but one value, looking to the verdict of the world outside. Your innocence is to be vindicated; and they show ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... son of Donald Ban MacWilliam whom a few years later he captured and beheaded,[3] came to Moray again; and, about the 1st of August 1214, King William demanded, and received[4] Earl John's daughter, whose name is not known, as a hostage for her father's loyalty, and a guarantee of the peace then made, under which John was probably recognised as earl and as entitled to his reduced territory. His daughter may, at this time, have been her father's sole heiress, although she did not remain so, because we find that he had a son who lived till ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray
... that, being without the requisite funds at the moment, it would be necessary to settle the terms and arrange the instalments, which should be paid at intervals of three months. For this she required an intermediary who in himself would be a sufficient guarantee to the Bohmers, and she ended by inviting His Eminence to act ...
— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini
... mention what I am going to tell you without previously consulting me? I do not mean a common promise; I mean it to be an oath." He spoke very earnestly. "This is a very serious matter. We are playing with fire and with life and death. You must give me some guarantee that ...
— Saracinesca • F. Marion Crawford
... until four hours before the special train departed for Switzerland were the passports returned. When Gerard asked the Foreign Office whether his passports were good to the United States the Foreign Office was silent and neither would the General Staff guarantee the correspondents a safe conduct through the German submarine zone. So the only thing the Ambassador could do was to select a route via Switzerland, France and Spain, to Cuba and the ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman


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