What's the difference between insure and subscribe?

Insure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
  • (v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (4) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (5) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
  • (6) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (7) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
  • (8) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
  • (9) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
  • (10) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
  • (11) Whereas 87% of U.S. physicians supported private fee-for-service health care, 85% of Canadian physicians supported government-funded national health insurance.
  • (12) When I eventually get hold of a human at Uber, I am told the only insurance cover is up to $1m to cover “bodily injury or property damage to third parties where the claim arises out of UberEats and UberRush operations”.
  • (13) The use of accounting software expands the use of in-office computers to areas beyond professional billing and insurance form generation.
  • (14) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (15) Requesting physicians explicitly identified "no money" or "no insurance" as the primary reason for transfer in 89 per cent of 164 cases in which these data were recorded.
  • (16) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
  • (17) 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.
  • (18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
  • (19) The studies are conducted on members of a prepaid medical insurance plan, and reside in the Oakland area of California, USA.
  • (20) Insurance claims for medical services submitted on behalf of a group of workers in the construction industry were collected over a 20-month period.

Subscribe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
  • (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
  • (v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
  • (v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
  • (v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
  • (v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
  • (v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
  • (v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
  • (v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
  • (v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
  • (v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
  • (v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
  • (2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
  • (3) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
  • (4) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
  • (5) "This is a real problem for Setanta, they are not going to have a critical mass of matches to persuade people to subscribe," said one city analyst.
  • (6) The company said it has spent £172m on what it terms subscriber acquisition costs and marketing in the year to the end of March, a £20m increase over the previous year.
  • (7) Movie and TV service Netflix announced Monday that it would raise prices for new subscribers and use the new funds to buy more content.
  • (8) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
  • (9) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
  • (10) Under the draft proposals, internet service providers with more than 400,000 subscribers will start collecting the details of customers suspected of sharing copyrighted content next year, in order to send them warning letters.
  • (11) TL 7 CHEWING SAND HAZEL HAYES Stats 25,000 subscribers, 800,000 views Who is she?
  • (12) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (13) If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily , that's already two million customers."
  • (14) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
  • (15) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
  • (16) The service will be offered at no extra cost to subscribers who have already signed up for Sky+HD, although customers will need a broadband connection.
  • (17) The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said at Smith's tribunal that it believed some of the information held by the covert organisation and accessible to companies that subscribed to the service "could only have been supplied by the police or the security services".
  • (18) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
  • (19) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
  • (20) HelloFresh sends 4m meals each month to its subscribers in the UK, US, Australia and parts of Europe.