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indemnities

indemnities is the plural of indemnity.

Meaning of indemnity

Noun

indemnity (countable and uncountable, plural indemnities)

  1. Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
    • Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance
  2. An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
    • Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility
  3. Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
    • Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation
  4. The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
    Synonyms:
    indemnification
  5. 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

  1. indemnifieth
  2. indemnify
  3. indemnifying
  4. indemnitee
  5. indemnitees
  6. indemnities
  7. indemnitor
  8. indemnitors
  9. indemnity
  10. indemnity costs
  11. indemonstrability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indemnities (page history and authors); indemnity (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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