insurance
/ɪnˈʃʊər(ə)ns/
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
ɪn - ˈʃʊərəns -> insurance
(n) အာမခံ
insurance /Çn'ʃƱǝrǝns;Brit also -ʃↄ:r-/ n
၁။ [U] (က) ~ (against sth) အာမခံ။ take out insurance against fire and theft ❍ household/ personal insurance ❍ insurance premiums (ie regular payments made for insurance) ❍ an insurance company/ salesman/ broker ❍ People without insurance had to pay for their own repairs. Compare ASSURANCE ၃ See also NATIONAL INSURANCE (ခ) [U] အာမခံလုပ်ငန်း။ Her husband works in insurance.
၂။ [U] အာမခံကြေး (သို့) အာမခံ။ ကုမ္ပဏီက ထုတ်ပေးငွေ။ When her husband died, she received £50 000 in insurance.
၃။ [C,U]~ (against sth) အာမခံ။ ခြေစောင့် လက်စောင့်။ have a large family as (an) insurance against old age.
❏ insurance policy n အာမခံစာချုပ်။ အာမခံပေါ်လစီ။ a medical insurance policy ❍ (fig ) regard nuclear weapons as an insurance policy. နျူကလီးယား လက်နက်များကို အနာဂတ်အတွက် အာမခံအဖြစ် သဘောထားသည်။
- Health/life/house/car insurance
- [take out insurance] : You have to take out building and contents insurance as a condition of the mortgage.
- [insurance against] : They provide free insurance against loss or damage up to £5, 000.
- [have insurance for/on something] : Do you have insurance for the house yet?
- [claim (for) something/make a claim for something on your insurance] : Can you claim the repairs on your insurance?
- He’s in insurance.
- Have you paid your car insurance?
- After the fire, they were able to rebuild their house with the insurance.
- [insurance against] : The hostages were being held as insurance against further bombing raids.
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