What does Ensure mean?
Definitions for Ensure
ɛnˈʃʊər, -ˈʃɜren·sure
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Princeton's WordNet
guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secureverb
make certain of
"This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!"
see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assureverb
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
"He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"
Wiktionary
ensureverb
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
ensureverb
To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
Etymology: From enseurer, from seur.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Ensureverb
Etymology: from sure, assurer, French.
It is easy to entail debts on succeeding ages, but how to ensure peace for any term of years is difficult enough. Jonathan Swift.
A mendicant contracted with a country fellow for a quantity of corn, to ensure his sheep for that year. Roger L'Estrange.
Wikipedia
Ensure
Ensure is an American brand of nutritional supplements and meal replacements manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. A 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle of Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein. The top six ingredients are water, corn maltodextrin, sugar, milk protein concentrate, canola oil, and soy protein isolate. Ensure is considered lactose-free for people with lactose intolerance.
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ensure
To ensure is to make certain or guarantee that something will occur or be the case. It often involves taking actions or precautions to make sure a desired outcome happens or a specific condition is met.
Webster Dictionary
Ensureverb
to make sure. See Insure
Ensureverb
to betroth
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Ensure
en-shōōr′, v.t. to make sure. [See Insure.]
Editors Contribution
ensure
To secure or guarantee.
They did ensure they created a unity government for the benefit of everyone.
Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Ensure' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #947
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Ensure' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1774
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Ensure' in Verbs Frequency: #163
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enures
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Ensure in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Ensure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Ensure in a Sentence
It is a day of deep reflection on how to go forward in Germany, as chancellor, I will do everything to ensure that this country is well managed in the difficult weeks to come.
Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan:
We need to ensure that we give clean air to our children and the generations to come.
If you look at what happened in Ontario, you would probably conclude that it did work out in that case, i think (the Quebec) deal speaks to the province’s desire to ensure that it remains a center for aerospace.
Our role will be to make sure the town is operating on a balanced budget and ensure there is money in the bank to pay for the town's expenses, the town will still decide how it wants to spend its funds, but we will ensure they are operating within the town budget.
This is my job, always trying to ensure that we verify details, so nobody, none of us in the group, will be accused of peddling false information.
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- осигурявамBulgarian
- zajistitCzech
- sicherstellen, gewährleistenGerman
- asegurarSpanish
- assurerFrench
- shickyreeManx
- asireHaitian Creole
- certigarIdo
- garantireItalian
- verzekeren, ervoor zorgenDutch
- garantirPortuguese
- asiguraRomanian
- удостовериться, убедитьсяRussian
- se till, säkerställaSwedish
- உறுதிTamil
- garantiye almak, sağlamak, emin olmakTurkish
- 确保Chinese
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