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Endorsement vs Warranty - What's the difference?

endorsement | warranty |

As nouns the difference between endorsement and warranty

is that endorsement is the act or quality of endorsing while warranty is security; warrant; guarantee.

As a verb warranty is

to warrant; to guarantee.

endorsement

English

(wikipedia endorsement)

Alternative forms

* endorsation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or quality of endorsing
    • The association announced its endorsement of the policy.
    The bank required that cheque endorsement be witnessed by a cashier.
    Companies sometimes pay millions for product endorsement by celebrities.
  • An amendment or added notation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).
    • Mr. Jones paid extra for the flood damage endorsement on his house insurance.
  • (aviation) An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.
    • Once she obtained the endorsement of her night flying hours, Joanna was approved to take the pilot's examination.
  • (education, certification) Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.
    • Wanted: Accredited teacher with Grade 12 mathematics endorsement .
    To transport gasoline, truckers must have a valid licence and the hazardous materials endorsement .
  • Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.
    • After the Olympics, he was hoping to get an endorsement deal.
  • Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.
    • I'm not sure whether an endorsement from Donald Trump will help or hurt.

    See also

    * allonge

    warranty

    English

    Noun

    (warranties)
  • Security; warrant; guarantee.
    • The stamp was a warranty of the public. -(John Locke).
  • (obsolete, legal) A covenant real, whereby the granter of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long since become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant.
  • (legal) An engagement or undertaking, expressed or implied, that a certain fact regarding the subject of a contract is, or shall be, as it is expressly implied or promised to be. In sales of goods by persons in possession, there is an implied warranty of title.
  • (insurance law) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when expressed, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
  • (rare) Justifying mandate or precept; authority; warrant. Shakespeare
    • If they disobey precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty . . . to disobey likewise. -Kettlewe.

    Synonyms

    * guarantee * warrant

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To warrant; to guarantee.

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