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hold harmless

hold harmless adjective: describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement "harmless" for the other party.

Adjective

hold harmless (not comparable)

  1. Describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement "harmless" for the other party.
    • a hold harmless clause
    • The first is a hold harmless agreement—a legal contract that limits or transfers liabilities between two parties. Like insurance, you usually have to make a hold harmless agreement before a liability occurs.2001, It's All Your Fault!, Silver Lake Pub., →ISBN, page 253
    Synonyms:
    save harmless

hold harmless meaning in Tamil

hold harmless in Tamil

ஒரு ஒப்பந்தத்தில் ஒப்பமிடும்பொழுது

Synonyms of hold harmless

Origin of hold harmless

From to hold someone harmless.

Questions about hold harmless

What does hold harmless mean?
Hold harmless means describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement "harmless" for the other party.
What is hold harmless in Tamil?
Hold harmless in Tamil is ஒரு ஒப்பந்தத்தில் ஒப்பமிடும்பொழுது. See Hold harmless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hold harmless?
Hold harmless is an adjective.

Words near hold harmless in the dictionary

  1. hold for ransom
  2. hold forth
  3. hold good
  4. hold hands
  5. hold hard
  6. hold harmless
  7. hold hostage
  8. hold in
  9. hold in contempt
  10. hold in derision
  11. hold in hand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hold harmless (page history and authors); hold harmless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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