insurance

English

Alternative forms

insuraunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From the older form ensurance, see also assurance.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ɪn.ˈʃʊɹ.əns/, /ɪn.ˈʃɝ.əns/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪn.ˈʃʊə.ɹəns/, /ɪn.ˈʃɔː.ɹəns/
(Southern American English) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ʃɚəns/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: in‧sur‧ance

Noun

insurance (usually uncountable, plural insurances)

A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
- 2012 January 1, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 87:
  In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance.
The business of providing insurance.
After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.
(figurative) Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event.
The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance.
(blackjack) A bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.
I only take insurance if the count is right.
(countable) An insurance policy
- 2009 February 18, Cheryl Critchley, “Free child care for Victorian bushfire victims”, in Herald Sun‎:
  "The children need to get back to some level of normalcy and their families can certainly use some respite to deal with things such as insurances, licences and other things they have lost," he said.

Derived terms

automobile insurance
bond insurance
car insurance
casualty insurance
credit insurance
dental insurance
divorce insurance
earthquake insurance
fire insurance
flood insurance
freight insurance
group insurance
health insurance
insurance adjuster
insurance agency
insurance agency
insurance agent
insurance claim
insurance company
insurance fire
insurance fraud
insurance goal
insurance plan
insurance policy
insurance premium
insurance scam
insure
insurer
key person insurance
liability insurance
life insurance
malpractice insurance
no-fault insurance
pet insurance
property insurance
reinsurance
term life insurance
title insurance
transportation insurance
unemployment insurance
whole-life insurance

Translations

indemnity

Albanian: sigurim (sq) m
Arabic: تَأْمِين‎ (ar) m (taʔmīn)
Armenian: ապահովագրություն (hy) (apahovagrutʿyun)
Assamese: বীমা (bima)
Azerbaijani: sığorta (az)
Belarusian: страхо́ўка f (straxóŭka)
Bengali: বিমা (bima)
Bulgarian: застрахо́вка (bg) f (zastrahóvka)
Burmese: အာမခံ (my) (ama.hkam)
Buryat: даадхал (daadxal)
Catalan: assegurança f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 保險／保险, 保险 (bou² him²)
Hakka: 保險／保险, 保险 (pó-hiám)
Mandarin: 保險／保险 (zh) (bǎoxiǎn)
Min Dong: 保險, 保险 (bō̤-hiēng)
Min Nan: 保險／保险, 保险 (pó-hiám)
Wu: 保險／保险, 保险 (pau xi)
Czech: pojištění (cs) n, pojistka (cs) f
Danish: forsikring (da) c
Dutch: verzekering (nl) f, assurantie (nl) f
Esperanto: asekuro
Estonian: kindlustus
Faroese: trygging f
Finnish: vakuutus (fi)
French: assurance (fr) f
Georgian: დაზღვევა (dazɣveva)
German: Versicherung (de) f
Greek: ασφάλιση (el) f (asfálisi)
Greenlandic: sillimmasiineq, qularnaveeqqut
Hebrew: ביטוח \\ בִּטּוּחַ‎ m (bitúakh)
Hindi: बीमा (hi) m (bīmā), इन्श्योरेंस (hi) m (inśyorens)
Hungarian: biztosítás (hu)
Icelandic: trygging (is) f
Ido: asekuro (io)
Indonesian: asuransi (id)
Irish: árachas m, táille árachais f
Italian: assicurazione (it) f
Japanese: 保険 (ja) (ほけん, hoken)
Kazakh: сақтандыру (kk) (saqtandyru)
Khmer: ការរ៉ាប់រង (kaa rap rɔɔng), ការធានា (kaa thiəniə)
Korean: 보험 (ko) (boheom)
Kyrgyz: камсыздандыруу (ky) (kamsızdandıruu)
Latvian: apdrošināšana f
Lithuanian: draudimas (lt) m, drauda f
Luxembourgish: Assurance f, Versécherung f
Macedonian: осигурување n (osiguruvanje)
Malay: insurans (ms)
Maori: inihua, rīanga
Mongolian: даатгал (mn) (daatgal)
Norman: asseûthance f (Jersey)
Northern Sami: dáhkádus
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forsikring (no) m or f
Nynorsk: forsikring f
Pashto: بيمه‎ (ps) f (bimá)
Persian: بیمه‎ (fa) (bime)
Polish: ubezpieczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: seguro (pt) (1)
Romanian: asigurare (ro) f
Romansch: assicuranza f
Russian: страхо́вка (ru) f (straxóvka)
Scottish Gaelic: àrachas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: осигура́ње n
Roman: osiguránje (sh) n
Sindhi: ويمو‎
Sinhalese: රක්‍ෂණය (rakṣaṇaya)
Slovak: poistenie n, poistka f
Slovene: zavarovanje (sl) n
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: zawěsćenje n
Spanish: seguro (es) m
Swahili: bima (sw) class 9/c10
Swedish: försäkring (sv)
Tajik: суғурта (suġurta), бима (bima)
Tamil: காப்புறுதி (kāppuṟuti)
Telugu: బీమా (te) (bīmā)
Thai: กรมธรรม์ (th) (grom-má-tan)
Turkish: sigorta (tr)
Ukrainian: страхо́вка f (straxóvka), страхування n (straxuvannja)
Urdu: بِیمَہ‎ m (bīmah)
Uyghur: سۇغۇرتا‎ (sughurta)
Uzbek: sugʻurta (uz)
Vietnamese: sự bảo hiểm (vi), bảo hiểm (vi)
Volapük: sur (vo), (fire) lefilisur
Welsh: insiwrans m
Yiddish: פֿאַרזיכערונג‎ f (farzikherung)

business

Arabic: تَأْمِين‎ (ar) m (taʔmīn)
Armenian: ապահովագրություն (hy) (apahovagrutʿyun)
Belarusian: страхава́нне (be) n (straxavánnje)
Bulgarian: застрахова́не (bg) n (zastrahováne)
Burmese: အာမခံလုပ်ငန်း (ama.hkamlupngan:)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 保險業／保险业 (bǎoxiǎnyè)
Czech: pojišťovna (cs) f
Danish: forsikring (da) c
Finnish: vakuutusala
French: assurance (fr)
Georgian: დაზღვევა (dazɣveva)
German: Versicherung (de) f
Hindi: बीमा (hi) m (bīmā)
Hungarian: biztosítószakma
Icelandic: tryggingar (is) f pl
Japanese: 保険業 (ほけんぎょう, hokengyō)
Korean: 보험업계 (boheomeopgye)
Lao: ການປະກັນໄພ (kān pa kan phai)
Latvian: apdrošināšana f
Lithuanian: draudimas (lt) m
Macedonian: осигурување n (osiguruvanje)
Norman: asseûthance f
Persian: بیمه‎ (fa) (bime)
Polish: ubezpieczenie (pl) n
Portuguese: seguro (pt) m
Romanian: asigurări (ro) f pl
Russian: страхова́ние (ru) n (straxovánije)
Slovak: poisťovňa f
Spanish: seguro (es) m
Swahili: bima (sw)
Swedish: försäkring (sv)
Tajik: суғуртакунӣ (suġurtakunī), бима (bima), суғурта (suġurta)
Thai: การประกันภัย
Turkish: sigortacılık (tr)
Turkmen: strahowaniýe
Ukrainian: страхува́ння n (straxuvánnja)
Uzbek: straxovaniye (uz), sugʻurta (uz)
Welsh: insiwrans m

metaphoric: any attempt to anticipate an unfavorable event

Hungarian: biztonság (hu) (in a biztonság kedvéért)

insurance policy — see insurance policy

Anagrams

nuisancer, uncarines