What does ensure mean?
Definitions for ensure
ɛnˈʃʊər, -ˈʃɜren·sure
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ensure.
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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Anagrams for ensure »
enures
ensuer
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
Lizzy has been managing the pain in her back for some time now and we were all of the same opinion that an operation was in the best interests of Lizzy's health and wellbeing, we are delighted that the surgery was a success and we will now ensure that Lizzy has all the support she needs to facilitate her recovery.
This isn't just about cooperating with the French authorities - it's about cooperating across Europe with intelligence agencies, with police authorities to ensure that we intercept these people, we identify them and we prevent them going about their murderous plans wherever they are planning and plotting and wherever they are seeking to attack.
The genesis of President Trump re-election campaign is social media regulation and to ensure there is not an exemption in fact-checking specifically for politicians like Donald Trump who like to lie online.
Our objective very quickly is to reach 20 liters per day per person to ensure people have proper access to safe water in terms of quality and quantity.
Justice for us would be for the government to ensure that this never happens again. They need to say sorry. We're waiting for an apology.
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- ضمانArabic
- осигурявамBulgarian
- zajistitCzech
- sicherstellen, gewährleistenGerman
- asegurarSpanish
- assurerFrench
- shickyreeManx
- asireHaitian Creole
- certigarIdo
- garantireItalian
- verzekeren, ervoor zorgenDutch
- garantirPortuguese
- asiguraRomanian
- убедиться, удостоверитьсяRussian
- se till, säkerställaSwedish
- உறுதிTamil
- sağlamak, garantiye almak, emin olmakTurkish
- 确保Chinese
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