ensure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

/ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ /ɪnˈʃʊə(ɹ)/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ensure.wav /ɪnˈʃʊɹ/ /ɪnˈʃɝ/

ensure ensures ensuring ensured

From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”). Doublet of insure.

assure inshore insure

ensurer

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