Definition of Guarantee

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Guarantee

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.

One who binds himself to see an undertaking of another performed; a guarantor.

The person to whom a guaranty is made; -- the correlative of guarantor.

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.

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Guarantee Quotations

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.
Bear Bryant

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Guarantee Translations

guarantee in Afrikaans is waarborg
guarantee in Dutch is garanderen, borg staan voor
guarantee in Finnish is taata
guarantee in French is garantissons, garantis, garantie, cautionner
guarantee in German is garantieren, Garantie, garantieren
guarantee in Hungarian is garancia
guarantee in Italian is garantire, garanzia, garanzia
guarantee in Norwegian is garanti, garantere, kausjonist, kausjon
guarantee in Portuguese is garantia
guarantee in Swedish is garanti, garantera

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