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10. warranty. • noun: (pl. warranties) 1 a written guarantee promising to repair or replace an article if necessary within a specified period. guarantee. • noun: 1 a formal assurance that certain conditions will be fulfilled, especially that a product will be of a specified quality.
Apr 12, 2011 · When would I use guarantee instead of guaranty? The dictionary definitions seem pretty much the same. Excepting maybe the noun form of the word. I have a real world example. A website I'm working on has a 30 day money back guarantee(y?). If you don't like your purchase, within the first 30 days, you can get your money back.
May 13, 2015 · Guarantee and guard are two words that seem to have a superfluous 'u', and in French they both omit the 'u' (garantie and garde). Normally the 'u' would be there to harden a 'g' before 'i' or 'e' in words of Latin origin, but it's useless here and therefore I can't think of an easy way of doing it!
Nov 8, 2014 · For a long time, I believed that this was, effectively, a merger of /i:/ and /ɪ/ in word-final positions. However, I recently stumbled upon some minimal pairs that seemingly have an /i:/-/i/ distinction in word-final positions, e.g. guarantee vs guaranty or trustee vs trusty. So, I was wondering:
Jan 14, 2019 · In German, there's an idiom that goes like "Nagel mich nicht darauf fest" (literally, "don't nail me down on that!") usually followed my some kind of information that is given without complete assurance or guarantee that it is correct. Now I'm wondering what would be the correct way of saying this in English. Is it "don't pin me down on that!"?
Apr 25, 2015 · To be a guarantee, warrant, or surety for; spec. to undertake with respect to (a contract, the performance of a legal act, etc.) that it shall be duly carried out; to make oneself responsible for the genuineness of (an article); hence, to assure the existence or persistence of; to set on a secure basis. (Example: "Written languages guarantee a systematic pronunciation.")
Jun 21, 2011 · 0. Yes, it describes two possible outcomes: (your) satisfaction (successfully) guaranteed. your money back (returned to you) In other words, it says "I promise that you will be satisfied, or, if not, that you will get your money back". That's if you take "guaranteed" literally as a pledge that you will be satisfied, and not as a condition of ...
Guarantee is much more applicable to a future event. I don't think anyone would say: "I guarantee I did not eat that cake." Promise is also future-oriented, but less decidedly so. One could swear that they will (or won't) do something in the future, or they could swear that some fact about the past is truthful.
Jul 25, 2020 · I really want to avoid the word "try" as well. But at the same time I want to have a written note on the quotation, making it 100% certain to them that there is no guarantee for their investment to work. At least not without them testing their use case on it, which is only possible after the purchase. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jan 27, 2017 · If you don't bribe my guards, I can't guarantee your safety crossing this frontier. (My translation: We'll rob or kill you down the road if you don't pay us protection money.) If you don't pay protection money, I can't guarantee the safety of your business. (My translation: Pay us protection money or goons will trash your business.)
