firm guarantee

collocation in English

meaningsoffirmandguarantee

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firm
adjective
uk
/fɜːm/us
/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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guarantee
noun
uk
/ˌɡær.ənˈtiː/us
/ˌɡer.ənˈtiː/
a promise that something will be done or will happen, especially a written promise by a company to repair or change a product that develops a fault within a particular period ...
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(Definition offirmandguaranteefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We could not give anyfirmguaranteethat there is any theatre from which they are excluded.
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Does he know that a deposit of over £1 million has been paid to the developers and that nofirmguaranteeof completion has been given?
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Portuguese public opinion deserves afirmguaranteethat anti-competitive practices are not a factor in the establishment of prices.
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That is all right provided that there is afirmguarantee.
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Is she prepared to give afirmguaranteeto that effect?
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I am very glad that it has been possible to restore afirmguaranteein this way.
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Will he give afirmguaranteethat the taxpayer will receive all that back on flotation?
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This is something less than afirmguarantee; but in 1967 the figure was nearly reached.
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Will he give afirmguaranteethat there will be a full day's debate on that important issue?
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They asked whether there would be afirmguaranteethat parents would have a say which meant something in the education of their children.
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I say that, before public money is granted, afirmguaranteeof this kind should be obtained from those who receive the money.
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Then, instead of afirmguaranteebeing given it is true that the words in italics are or may be overridden.
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Better pensions, better dependency provisions and better widowhood cover, together with afirmguarantee that pensions will be protected against inflation—that is my assurance.
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That option would provide afirmguarantee, but the benefits would not improve in real terms as they might under the first option.
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Have they had afirmguaranteethat the island services, for example, will be continued at least as they are at present?
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Councils will have somefirmguaranteeof what they will receive even if it is still within the framework of that original bad settlement.
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That is why we have given afirmguaranteeto do just that.
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Do they consider that it gives afirmguaranteeof security in old age?
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However, there is nofirmguaranteethat the money given to local government for those purposes will in fact be spent on those specific purposes.
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