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From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.
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guarantee (plural guarantees)
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- More specifically, a written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty
The cooker comes with a five-year guarantee.
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:But God who is the great Guarantee for the Peace , Order , and good behaviour of Mankind
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anything that assures a certain outcome
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Aklanon: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: garanci (sq) f
- Arabic: ضَمَان (ar) m (ḍamān), ضَمَانَة (ar) f (ḍamāna), كَفَالَة (ar) f (kafāla)
- Egyptian Arabic: ضمانة f (ḍamāna)
- Armenian: երաշխիք (hy) (erašxikʻ)
- Azerbaijani: zəmanət (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: berme
- Bau Bidayuh: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: гара́нтыя f (harántyja)
- Bengali: জামিন (bn) (jamin), জামানত (bn) (jamanot)
- Bikol Central: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: gwarant m
- Bulgarian: гара́нция (bg) f (garáncija), поръчи́телство (bg) n (porǎčítelstvo)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: garantia (ca)
- Cebuano: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 保證／保证 (bou2 zing3)
- Mandarin: 保證／保证 (zh) (bǎozhèng)
- Czech: záruka (cs) f, garance (cs) f
- Danish: garanti c
- Dutch: garantie (nl) f
- Esperanto: garantio
- Estonian: garantii, tagatis
- Faroese: tryggur
- Finnish: takuu (fi), lupaus (fi)
- French: garantie (fr) f
- Galician: garantía f
- German: Garantie (de) f
- Hebrew: עֲרֵבוּת f (arevut)
- Hindi: गारंटी (hi) f (gāraṇṭī)
- Hungarian: garancia (hu)
- Iban: jamin
- Icelandic: ábyrgð (is) f
- Indonesian: garansi (id)
- Italian: garanzia (it) f
- Japanese: 保証 (ja) (ほしょう, hoshō)
- Kazakh: кепілдік (kepıldık)
- Khmer: ការធានា (kaa thiəniə)
- Kimaragang: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 보증(保證) (ko) (bojeung)
- Kyrgyz: кепилдик (ky) (kepildik)
- Latvian: garantija f
- Lithuanian: garantija f
- Macedonian: гаранција f (garancija)
- Malay: jaminan
- Norman: garanti m
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: garanti (no) m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: garanti m
- Occitan: garantida (oc) f
- Oromo: wabii
- Pashto: ضمانت (ps) m (zamānat)
- Persian: ضمانت (fa) (zemânat), گارانتی (fa) (gârânti)
- Polish: gwarancja (pl) f
- Portuguese: garantia (pt) f
- Romanian: garanție (ro) f
- Russian: гара́нтия (ru) f (garántija), пору́ка (ru) f (porúka), поручи́тельство (ru) n (poručítelʹstvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: barrantachd f, urras m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја̀мство n (Croatia), јѐмство n (Serbia, Bosnia), гара̀нција f
- Roman: jàmstvo (sh) n (Croatia), jèmstvo (sh) n (Serbia, Bosnia), garàncija (sh) f
- Slovak: záruka f
- Slovene: garancija f, jamstvo n
- Spanish: garantía (es) f
- Swedish: garanti (sv) c
- Tajik: кафолат (kafolat), замонат (zamonat)
- Thai: การรับประกัน (th) (gaan-ráp-bprà-gan)
- Turkish: garanti (tr), güvence (tr), teminat (tr)
- Turkmen: kepillik
- Ukrainian: гара́нтія (uk) f (harántija)
- Urdu: ضَمانَت f (zamānat)
- Uzbek: garantiya (uz), kafolat (uz), kafillik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự bảo đảm (vi)
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person who gives such a guarantee
guarantee (third-person singular simple present guarantees, present participle guaranteeing, simple past and past participle guaranteed)
- To give an assurance that something will be done right.
- To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
- To make something certain.
- The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.
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to give an assurance that something will be done right
- Arabic: ضَمِنَ (ḍamina)
- Armenian: երաշխավորել (hy) (erašxavorel)
- Basque: bermetu
- Belarusian: гарантава́ць impf or pf (harantavácʹ)
- Breton: gwaranti
- Bulgarian: гарантирам (bg) (garantiram)
- Catalan: garantir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保證／保证 (zh) (bǎozhèng)
- Czech: ručit, garantovat
- Danish: garantere
- Dutch: garanderen (nl)
- Esperanto: garantii
- Estonian: tagama
- Finnish: taata (fi), luvata (fi)
- French: garantir (fr)
- Galician: garantir
- German: garantieren (de), versichern (de)
- Hungarian: garantál (hu), biztosít (hu)
- Ingrian: taata
- Italian: garantire (it), assicurare (it)
- Khmer: រ៉ាប់រង (km) (rap rɔɔng), ធានា (km) (thiəniə)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: temîn kirin (ku), misoger kirin (ku), garantî kirin (ku)
- Lao: ຮັບຮອງ (hap hǭng)
- Latin: polliceor
- Malay: jamin
- Norwegian: garantere
- Polish: gwarantować (pl) impf, zagwarantować pf, zapewniać (pl) impf, zapewnić (pl) pf, zaręczać impf, zaręczyć pf
- Portuguese: garantir (pt)
- Romanian: garanta (ro)
- Russian: гаранти́ровать (ru) (garantírovatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: barrantaich
- Serbo-Croatian: jamčiti (sh)
- Slovene: zagotoviti, zagotavljati
- Spanish: garantizar (es), garantir (es)
- Swedish: garantera (sv)
- Thai: รับรอง (th) (ráp-rɔɔng)
- Ukrainian: гарантува́ти impf or pf (harantuváty)
- Vietnamese: bảo lãnh (vi)
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to assume responsibility for a debt
to make something certain
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