Or using words like "indemnify", which are unfriendly and any attorney should know are not understood by the laypersons they want to agree to this.

• My understanding from reading and asking is that it generally means that the signer will pay the attorney fees, or "cure" problems for the other party (big $).
• An attorney named Green told me once (many months ago) that an indemnification clause rarely comes up, but when it does it has a huge impact.