Fare vs Insure - What's the difference?
fare | insure |
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
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(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(archaic) To go, travel.
To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
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(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
(chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
* 1787 , ,
: To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
As verbs the difference between fare and insure
is that fare is while insure is to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.fare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
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References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
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- There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
Derived terms
* afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfareDerived terms
* farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfareAnagrams
* English irregular verbs ----insure
English
Verb
- I'm not insured against burglary.
- ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- He insured me that there would be no further delays.