From the word’s history
From the older form ensurance; insure + -ance.
較早寫作 ensurance，可看作 insure 加上 -ance。
You can picture insurance as a deal against bad luck: you pay a little, regularly, into a shared pot, and in return the pot pays your big bill if something bad happens — so a disaster you cannot afford alone is shared and .
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insurancenoun/ɪnˈʃɔː.ɹəns/
- 1
A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event.
- The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance.
- 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.
- 2
The business of providing insurance.
- After five years in banking, I switched to insurance.
- 3
Any attempt to forestall an unfavorable event.
- The sky was clear, but I took my umbrella for insurance.
- 4
blackjackgamesA bet made after the deal, which pays off if the dealer has blackjack.
- I only take insurance if the count is right.
- 5
An insurance policy.
- "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.
- 6
A company providing insurance policies; an insurer.
- 'They don't say so yet, but the suggestion is incendiarism. […]' 'Why should they think anything wrong?' 'These insurances go a lot by the fire brigade report. I suppose the officer in charge has suggested something.'
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。