"guarantee" Definition

Definitions for the word "guarantee" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 a formal promise or assurance, esp. That something is of a specified quality and durability. B document giving such an undertaking. 2 = *guaranty. 3 person making a guaranty or giving a security. v. (-tees, -teed) 1 a give or serve as a guarantee for. B provide with a guarantee. 2 give a promise or assurance. 3 (foll. By to) secure the possession of (a thing) for a person. [related to *warrant]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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