What's the difference between indemnify and secure?

Indemnify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  • (v. t.) To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evaluation, in relation to the different indemnifying, is differentiated.
  • (2) Prosecutor Andrew Edis said it was still not clear if Coulson's costs would be indemnified against costs.
  • (3) The company chosen to do the hauling should be able to demonstrate that they have appropriate insurance to indemnify your office in the event of a problem while they have the waste in their possession.
  • (4) Meanwhile analysts think that Google, which writes the Android mobile software used by Samsung and dozens of others, may have to indemnify handset makers against such lawsuits.
  • (5) This emotional reward indemnifies the future of private practice, because it can exist only in the presence of a close patient-physician relationship, which is the cornerstone of the private practice of ophthalmology.
  • (6) The lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability over the case.
  • (7) Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, is seeking £135,000 of costs incurred before News UK indemnified him in January last year.
  • (8) Instead, officials with knowledge of the rendition operations stressed that they were "ministerially authorised government policy", suggesting that any intelligence officers involved were indemnified against prosecution or civil proceedings in the UK when an authorisation was signed by a government minister under section seven of the Intelligence Services Act – a clause described by some MPs as "a licence to kill".
  • (9) She dropped the claim after News UK – the News Corp subsidiary that under a previous guise as News International published the now-defunct News of the World – which was indemnifying her costs, said it would not be seeking to be reimbursed following her acquittal on all charges.
  • (10) One idea is that rights holders might look to indemnify ISPs against being sued by websites that take action over being blocked in order to give confidence that they will not face large payouts.
  • (11) The league said that Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust also "agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the NBA against lawsuits from others, including Donald Sterling”.
  • (12) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
  • (13) But liabilities keep mounting in the company's core casualty business, which indemnifies individuals and companies against damage to themselves and their properties.
  • (14) It also favours an Ofcom-style regulator for supermarkets to address day-to-day abuses of power towards consumers and suppliers, and for government to indemnify councils against legal costs of supermarket planning disputes.
  • (15) Although the nurse has admitted being in breach of her duty, she claims the company should have indemnified her.
  • (16) The act could also indemnify companies acting for security purposes from civil and criminal liability, including violating a user's privacy, provided these were not intentional, the group warned.
  • (17) The publisher’s decision also means other cleared defendants in the trial who were indemnified by News UK have dropped their cost claims.
  • (18) The government will indemnify the private contractors, which means the taxpayer will be left to foot the bill for any leak, a similar arrangement to how things stand now.
  • (19) After having reviewed all the 22 patients in Belgium who are indemnified for isocyanate occupational asthma, the authors cannot find any significant factor that would permit screening and previous eviction (atopy, smoking habits).
  • (20) An insurance policy, at small cost, might be offered to indemnify couples against costs of abortion, tubal division, or maternity care the operation had failed or not.

Secure


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
  • (a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
  • (a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
  • (a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
  • (v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
  • (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
  • (v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
  • (v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (4) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (6) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (7) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
  • (8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
  • (9) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (10) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
  • (11) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
  • (12) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
  • (13) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
  • (14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (15) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (16) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (17) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
  • (18) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (19) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
  • (20) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.