Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, and the like; proper to be insured.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
insured
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being insured or eligible to be insured
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Examples
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Trillions of $US in insurable assets would be at risk with a 0.5 meter rise.
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Trillions of $US in insurable assets would be at risk with a 0.5 meter rise.
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As Gaylin asks, “Should ‘inability to play tennis’ be classified as an insurable disease?”
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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As Gaylin asks, “Should ‘inability to play tennis’ be classified as an insurable disease?”
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer.
Balkinization 2006
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But Epstein said physical examinations concluded that Beckett is "insurable," indicating that his arm is structurally sound enough for a policy to be placed on it.
FOXSports.com News 2010
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And there are millions of others experiencing the same problem either due to a job loss or because they are not "insurable" as determined by the insurance companies.
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The whole idea of the health care reform plan is to make everyone insurable, by eliminating exclusions and providing subsidies to make it affordable.
Matthew Yglesias » How the White House Health Plan Compares 2010
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The whole idea of the health care reform plan is to make everyone insurable, by eliminating exclusions and providing subsidies to make it affordable.
Matthew Yglesias » How the White House Health Plan Compares 2010
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Saint Hayek was unequivocal in arguing for universal health care in Road to Serfdom, as it is a “genuinely insurable risk,” ie, no moral hazard.
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