Guarantee Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

Noun

And as key pieces of the infrastructure are knocked out, there is no

guarantee

that they will be repaired or rebuilt, at least not as they were before.

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Naomi Klein

Harper’s

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It might be no bad thing if the Constitution’s

guarantee

of “equal protection of the laws” was interpreted to outlaw the vagaries of voting …

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Michael Kinsley

New York Times Book Review

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Collecting can be a sort of love-sickness. If you begin collecting living things,  … even if you manage to find them and then possess them, there is no

guarantee

they won’t die or change.

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Susan Orlean

New Yorker

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The washer comes with a guarantee against major defects.

They wanted a guarantee that the document was authentic.

They want the new contract to include a guarantee of job security.

The U.S. Constitution includes guarantees against unreasonable searches.

He cited the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.

Verb

They’re called change agents. They swoop in to transform stodgy institutions …  . It’s a risky tack, one that

guarantees

large numbers of people will hate the boss’s guts.

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Daniel McGinn

Newsweek

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For an incumbent President …  . The power of the office and the media coverage its holder is

guaranteed

for just doing his job generally give him the luxury of staying above the fray.

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Joe Klein

Time

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Voucher plans were adopted largely as a last resort, an effort to

guarantee

a semblance of school choice for low-income minority students in failing inner-city schools.

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Jeffrey Rosen

New Republic

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The washer is guaranteed against defects for one year.

They guarantee that the diamonds they sell are top quality.

He offered to personally guarantee the loan.

The investment was guaranteed by the bank.

I guarantee that you’ll be satisfied.

He guaranteed us that everything would go according to plan.

Money doesn’t guarantee a happy life.

He guaranteed a victory in the championship game.

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