🇬🇧 Guarantee meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A guarantee is a strong, formal promise that says, “If this person cannot pay or do what they promised, I will be responsible and do it instead.” It is like an official grown‑up promise to take care of the problem, usually about money or paying someone’s debt.

I asked my sister to be my guarantee for the pizza bill, but she said her signature costs three fries and lifetime bragging rights.

The robot requested a guarantee that if its human owner didn’t pay for repairs, a backup human would appear with a wallet.

My aunt became a guarantee for my cousin’s bike loan, which is fancy talk for “If he disappears, I pay, and then I chase him.”

Dad said he’d be my guarantee for the library fines, but then he saw how many books I had and started reading the tiny print twice.

In real life, a guarantee for a debt is often called a “surety” or a “guarantor,” which is a fancy way to say, “Congratulations, you just officially promised to pay if your friend vanishes like a ninja.”

Old Anna clutched a broken pot. The young baker set it on the table and wrote a guarantee on a scrap: his name, the date, and "I will pay." He also logged the guarantee in his notebook and sealed the guarantee with a stamp. The paper guarantee sat at the pot's rim; the guarantee stopped Anna's shaking; she smiled, relieved.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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