GUARANTEE
\ɡˌaɹantˈiː], \ɡˌaɹantˈiː], \ɡ_ˌa_ɹ_a_n_t_ˈiː]\
Definitions of GUARANTEE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners"
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stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information"
By Princeton University
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In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
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One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
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In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.
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The person to whom a guaranty is made; - the correlative of guarantor.
By Oddity Software
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In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to such payment or performance; an engagement which secures or insures another against a contingency; a warranty; a security. Same as Guaranty.
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One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
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In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty.
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The person to whom a guaranty is made; - the correlative of guarantor.
By Noah Webster.
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A promise by a third person to secure the payment of a debt, etc., by another; one who becomes surety for the performance of another's promises; property pledged as security for the performance of promises.
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To undertake to secure (performance of agreement by another); warrant. Also, guaranty.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An engagement by a third person to see an agreement fulfilled; one who binds himself to see the stipulations of another performed; the person to whom the promise is given.
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To make sure; to undertake to see another perform what he has stipulated; to indemnify. See Warrant.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A promise to answer for the payment of some debt or the performance of some duty in case of the failure of another person who is primarily liable; a warranty; a security;—a warranter: one who binds himself to see the promises or stipulations of another person fulfilled;—also written Guaranty.
