(n.) 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.
(n.) One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
(n.) The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(2) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(3) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(4) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(5) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
(6) Moscovici added that France wants the summit to set up a eurozone banking union, which would take on responsibility for propping up failing banks and guarantee depositors' savings across the 17 countries.
(7) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
(8) Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
(9) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
(10) 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) to oligonucleotide probes guaranteed the production of labelled probes of 100% specific activity that gave consistent, reproducible results, within hours, in a rapid in situ hybridization (ISH) technique.
(11) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
(12) But he says it does not guarantee a return to sustained growth because of global forces beyond its control.
(13) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(14) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
(15) The U.S. also needs significant regulatory and financial support, including "billions in loan guarantees," the report said.
(16) The content of vitamin A in the calf-rearing milk feed mixture guarantees its sufficient level in the blood of healthy calves.
(17) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.
(18) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
(19) I've been told that I must not give guarantees, but I can give you something."
(20) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
Vouchsafe
Definition:
(v. t.) To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
(v. t.) To receive or accept in condescension.
(v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) In gauging the achievements of surgical treatment it is important to try to measure the quality of functional result vouchsafed to the patient and his capacity for work and recreation.
(2) Her father, the Reverend Hubert Brasier, was killed in a car accident just after May left university, but again, she vouchsafes no details, a reticence that would not be shown by most politicians.
(3) Patel, the only patient who spoke, was vouchsafed a six-minute slot.
(4) Only the elucidation of epidemiological conditions can vouchsafe the definite use of the effective measures possible today.
(5) As for herself, Diana modestly vouchsafed, in a programme that would duly cost her HRH, she wished only to be, “a queen in people’s hearts”.
(6) I hope you guys can tell the difference.” The Snowden-as-traitor camp will take his reluctance to vouchsafe too many details as confirmation that he is, if not a double agent, then a “useful idiot” for the Kremlin.