indemnities
indemnities is the plural of indemnity.
Meaning of indemnity
Noun
indemnity (countable and uncountable, plural indemnities)
- Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
- Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance
- Synonyms:
- indemnification, insurance, assurance
- An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
- Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility
- Synonyms:
- indemnification, liability, responsibility
- Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
- Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation
- Synonyms:
- indemnification, reparations, recompense, recompensation, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, mends
- The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
- Synonyms:
- indemnification
- A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
- Synonyms:
- indemnification
Questions about indemnities
- What is indemnities the plural of?
- Indemnities is the plural of indemnity.
Words near indemnities in the dictionary
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