INSURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insured mean? 

• INSURED (noun)
  The noun INSURED has 1 sense:

1. a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc.

  Familiarity information: INSURED used as a noun is very rare.

• INSURED (adjective)
  The adjective INSURED has 1 sense:

1. covered by insurance

  Familiarity information: INSURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSURED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

insured; insured person

Hypernyms ("insured" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• INSURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered by insurance

Context example:

all members of the film cast and crew are insured

Similar:

insurable (capable of being insured or eligible to be insured)

Antonym:

uninsured (not covered by insurance)

 Context examples 

MY gratitude will be insured immediately by any information tending to that end, and HERS must be gained by it in time.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The rules of the service insured that every face should be clean-shaven, every head powdered, and every neck covered by the little queue of natural hair tied with a black silk ribbon.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary.

(Insurance, Health, Reimbursement, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

She had one idea firmly fixed, however, which insured her security.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A mechanism for guarding against financial aspects of risk by making payments in the form of premiums to an insurance company, which pays an agreed-upon sum to the insured in the event of loss.

(Insurance, NCI Thesaurus)

I thank you, ma'am, sincerely thank you, said Marianne, with warmth: your invitation has insured my gratitude for ever, and it would give me such happiness, yes, almost the greatest happiness I am capable of, to be able to accept it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)