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  • noun Plural form of assurer.

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Examples

  • Don was one of those empty assurers, or at least pretended to be (while Pete and Betty intuitively understood that, no, this is a pivotal moment whose direction and reverberations are unknown).

    Mad Men Reaches Its Appointment in Samarra: James Wolcott Wolcott, James 2009

  • It seems matter of regret that we cannot persuade this illustrious depredator to take the command of our police force, that body of life-assurers and property-protectors which has proved so singularly ineffective as a preventive service in the present case.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • The Financial Services Board (FSB) and Registrar of Insurance on Friday warned the general public to be wary of illegal life assurers who might be operating against consumers 'interests in the country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The call followed a recent sharp rise in complaints that unregistered life assurers were carrying out insurance business in the country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • From the largest banks and life assurers to mail order companies and retailers, mail users are aggressively reducing their reliance on post and are investing heavily in finding alternative means to market and deliver their products and services.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • One of South Africa's largest composite assurers, the JSE-listed

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Long-term assets of life-assurers should be excluded from this tax.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • According to him, assurers in South Africa have come across cases where the cause of occupational disability has been AIDS.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It is further said that fear keeps them obedient, and it is true that prison, gallows and wheels are excellent assurers of submission to existing laws.

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

  • It seems matter of regret that we cannot persuade this illustrious depredator to take the command of our police force, that body of life-assurers and property-protectors which has proved so singularly ineffective as a preventive service in the present case.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

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