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Assurance vs Compensation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between assurance and compensation

is that assurance is the act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence while compensation is the act or principle of compensating.

assurance

English

Alternative forms

* assuraunce

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
  • *(w) xvii. 31.
  • *:Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
  • The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
  • *(w) x. 22.
  • *:Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
  • Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
  • *(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
  • *:Brave men meet danger with assurance .
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance .
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.His air, of self-confident assurance , seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
  • Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
  • (lb) Betrothal; affiance.
  • Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
  • (lb) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. ((William Blackstone) (1723-1780))

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    Anagrams

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    compensation

    English

    (wikipedia compensation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or principle of compensating.
    • (Emerson)
  • That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
  • * Hallam
    • The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
  • * Burke
    • No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
  • The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
  • A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
  • An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
  • The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of compensating) restitution * (recompense or reward) restitution

    Derived terms

    * overcompensation