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assurance

/uh-shoor-uhns, -shur-/US // əˈʃʊər əns, -ˈʃɜr- //UK // (əˈʃʊərəns) //

保证,确保,保险,保障

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a positive declaration intended to give confidence: He received assurances of support for the project.
    • : promise or pledge; guaranty; surety: He gave his assurance that the job would be done.
    • : full confidence; freedom from doubt; certainty: to act in the assurance of success.
    • : freedom from timidity; self-confidence; belief in one's abilities: She acted with speed and assurance.
    • : presumptuous boldness; impudence.
    • : Chiefly British. insurance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounconfidence

Examples

  • The union has been pressing for more assurances that the classrooms are well-ventilated.

  • People who turn over secret documents are taking enormous risks, and they often want assurances that the revelations will have the largest possible impact.

  • To hear McConnell’s team tell it, he won by gaining other assurances about the longevity of the filibuster and its 60-vote threshold for most legislation.

  • Our aim in this partnership is to provide further assurance that those who fly are as safe as possible.

  • The lawmakers’ concerns came despite assurances by the TSA that the agency remains on “high alert” and that there would be a stepped-up law enforcement presence at all three major Washington-area airports through the inauguration.

  • To an audience destabilized by seismic changes in the culture, he brings the assurance (and the threat) that Obama et al.

  • And by pronouncing other cultures and political systems “evil,” there was the assurance that America was good.

  • It was on this assurance that the FAA certified that the 787 was safe to fly again.

  • Any financial institution would have a huge quality assurance team to find such bugs, but for Mark it was all up to him.

  • “I understand the concept of business and startups,” Ahrenberg says with easy assurance.

  • Belief in his own value had never been thus assailed before; that he was indispensable had been an ultimate assurance.

  • The presence of a large gold fund was an assurance of the ability to return to specie payments after the close of the war.

  • All she needed was a certain amount of his society, opportunities to work for him, the assurance of his success and happiness.

  • Instantly Longcluse had used his revolver; but before he could make assurance doubly sure, his quick ear detected a step outside.

  • On the subject of Shakespeare's height he could not speak with assurance, but Keats was only just over five feet.