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    This plan indemnifies workers against wages lost through illness.
    indemnifies = protects or compensates
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    With rapt attention he watched the likes of This Gun for Hire, Shadow of a Doubt, and Double Indemnity.†  (source)
    Indemnity = something that protects against future loss
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    I'd introduced Andie to noir—to Bogart and The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, all the classics.†  (source)
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    Forty-thousand-dollar death benefit, double indemnity if he or she died in a train crash, a plane crash, or a fire.†  (source)
    indemnity = something that protects against future loss
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    And yes, there were precautions administrators took to indemnify themselves against all eventualities.†  (source)
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    Here the state guarantees kicked in, and Wennerström was indemnified.†  (source)
    indemnified = protected against future loss
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    With undisguised contempt for this attitude, Adams in 1806 had introduced and pushed to passage—successfully—a unique experience for him, he noted in his diary—a series of resolutions condemning British aggressions upon American ships, and requesting the President to demand restoration and indemnification of the confiscated vessels.†  (source)
    indemnification = protection against future loss
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The government had granted temporary indemnities to Joe Slovo, the general secretary of the Communist Party, and Joe Modise, the commander of MK, and to see these two men shaking hands with the National Party leaders who had demonized them for decades was extraordinary.†  (source)
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    Clyde could not quite assure himself that, in the event that Roberta was not extricated, he would be able to escape without indemnifying her in some form which might not mean just temporary efforts to aid her, but something more—marriage, possibly—since already she had reminded him that he had promised to see her through.†  (source)
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    It was the first payment on a forty-thousand-dollar policy that in the event of death by accidental means, paid double indemnity.†  (source)
    indemnity = something that protects against future loss
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    But about the 'Pioneer,' I have been consulting a little with some of the men on our side, and they are inclined to take it into their hands—indemnify me to a certain extent—carry it on, in fact.†  (source)
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    As for Fix, he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly not come out of this affair well indemnified.†  (source)
    indemnified = protected against future loss
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    If she accepted this money it was not to be considered as indemnification for her misfortune as a young girl, which had not been in any degree her own fault, but merely as compensation for her ruined life.†  (source)
    indemnification = protection against future loss
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