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indemnify

verb

To compensate for a loss or protect against specified loss.

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The agreement states who will indemnify the owner for any damage.
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The town's fictional relief agreement required a designated fund to indemnify the shopkeeper for the resulting loss once the agreed evidence had been checked.
From The Depot in the Novel.

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This entry is part of the vocabulary collection supplied by GlobalRPh. Definitions are concise study meanings. Examples combine original teaching sentences with selected passages adapted from the supplied study notes; their source is labeled beside each example. A word may have additional specialized or historical senses.

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