Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Security from damage, loss, or penalty.

    Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance

  2. (countable, uncountable)An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.

    Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility

  3. (countable, uncountable)Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.

    Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation

    Erstattung, Rückzahlung, Kompensation

    компенса́цияkompensácija, возмеще́ниеvozmeščénije, вы́платаvýplata

    a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

  4. (countable, uncountable)The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.

    гара́нтия от убы́тковgarántija ot ubýtkov, гара́нтия от поте́рьgarántija ot potérʹ, индемните́тindɛmnitét

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Schadloshaltung, Indemnität

    индемните́тindemnitét

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Indemnity insurance policies protect the insured person, or the insured person's own property.

  2. Types of indemnity insurance include health insurance, disability insurance, fire insurance, and life insurance.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
repayment:
right:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
repayment:
insurance: principle:

Origin

From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemni

From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitās (“security from damage”), from Latin indemnis (“undamaged”), from in- (“not”) + damnum (“damage”).

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