ensure

  • 11ensure — (also insure esp. in AmE) verb ADVERB ▪ practically, virtually ▪ effectively ▪ (not) only, simply ▪ The system not only ensures maximum discounts, but als …

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  • 12ensure — transitive verb (ensured; ensuring) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French ensurer, alteration of assurer more at assure Date: 1660 to make sure, certain, or safe ; guarantee Synonyms: ensure, insure, assure, secure mean to make a thing or… …

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  • 13ensure — en|sure W1S3 [ınˈʃuə US ˈʃur] v especially BrE also insure AmE [T] to make certain that something will happen properly = ↑make sure ▪ facilities to ensure the safety of cyclists ensure (that) ▪ The hospital tries to ensure that people are seen… …

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  • 14ensure — [[t]ɪnʃʊ͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ ensures, ensuring, ensured VERB To ensure something, or to ensure that something happens, means to make certain that it happens. [FORMAL] [V that] Britain s negotiators had ensured that the treaty which resulted was a… …

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  • 15ensure */*/*/ — UK [ɪnˈʃɔː(r)] / US [ɪnˈʃʊr] verb [transitive] Word forms ensure : present tense I/you/we/they ensure he/she/it ensures present participle ensuring past tense ensured past participle ensured to make certain that something happens or is done The… …

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  • 16ensure — /ɛnˈʃɔ / (say en shaw), /ən / (say uhn ) verb (t) (ensured, ensuring) 1. to secure, or bring surely, as to a person: this letter will ensure you a hearing. 2. to make sure or certain to come, occur, etc.: measures to ensure the success of an… …

  • 17ensure — assure, ensure, insure These three words overlap in meaning, and all have to do with aspects of certainty or security. Assure means ‘to make (a person) sure, to convince’, and can be followed by of or a that clause (She had to leave, but we were… …

    Modern English usage

  • 18ensure — Insure In sure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Insured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Insuring}.] [OE. ensuren, prob. for assuren, by a change of prefix. See 1st {In }, and {Sure}, and cf. {Assure}, {Ensure}.] [Written also {ensure}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To make sure or …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 19ensure — ensurer, n. /en shoor , sherr /, v.t., ensured, ensuring. 1. to secure or guarantee: This letter will ensure you a hearing. 2. to make sure or certain: measures to ensure the success of an undertaking. 3. to make secure or safe, as from harm. 4.… …

    Universalium

  • 20ensure — [ɪn ʃɔ:, ʃʊə, ɛn ] verb make certain that (something) will occur or be so. ↘(ensure against) make sure that (a problem) does not occur. Origin ME: from Anglo Norman Fr. enseurer. alt. of OFr. aseurer, earlier form of assurer (see assure). Usage… …

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