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# insurance

«insurance» in Mova's school dictionary: **an arrangement where you pay a company a small amount…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (insurance — uncountable; an insurance policy)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Insurance is an arrangement where you pay a company a small amount regularly, and if something bad happens, like an accident, theft or illness, the company pays to help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#m1)

2) Insurance can mean any protection against something going wrong: "I took an umbrella as insurance." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: car insurance, house insurance, travel insurance, health insurance. In maths and money: insurance payments per month, total per year. Phrases: take out insurance, insurance policy, insurance claim, as insurance against.

### examples

- We have insurance for our house in case of fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x1)
- Dad pays for car insurance every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x2)
- The insurance paid for the broken window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x3)
- Buy travel insurance before going abroad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x4)
- I packed extra snacks as insurance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x5)
- Insurance costs 30 dollars a month, so 360 dollars a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: some insurance, not "an insurance" (say "an insurance policy"). Verb: insure. Do not mix up with "ensure" (make sure). In maths: yearly cost = monthly cost × 12.

### In the corpora

- [There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/1/)
- [Having life insurance is a sensible plan made by many parents; it does not mean anyone expects to die soon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/17/)
- [Countries also trade services, such as banking, insurance, software, films and tourism, not only goods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/20/)
- [In the US, most people rely on health insurance, which pays part of the bills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «insurance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/insurance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.