Dictionary entry
Insurance
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʃʊər(ə)ns/
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈʃʊər(ə)ns/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) အာမခံ
Definition
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] အာမခံလုပ္ငန္း။ Her husband works in insurance. ၂။ [U] အာမခံေၾကး (သို႔) အာမခံ။ ကုမၸဏီက ထုတ္ေပးေငြ။ When her husband died, she received £50 000 in insurance. ၃။ [C,U] ~ (against sth) အာမခံ။ ေျခေစာင့္ လက္ေစာင့္။ have a large family as (an) insurance against old age. ❏ insurance policy n အာမခံစာခ်ဳပ္။ အာမခံေပၚလစီ။ a medical insurance policy ❍ ( fig ) regard nuclear weapons as an insurance policy. ႏ်ဴကလီးယား လက္နက္မ်ားကို အနာဂတ္အတြက္ အာမခံအျဖစ္ သေဘာထားသည္။
Examples
- 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.