ensure
to secure or guarantee: This letter will ensure you a hearing.
to make sure or certain: measures to ensure the success of an undertaking.
to make secure or safe, as from harm.
Origin of ensure
1Other words for ensure
Other words from ensure
- en·sur·er, noun
- un·en·sured, adjective
Words Nearby ensure
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How to use ensure in a sentence
Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPolice, their representatives and supporters tell us, ensure our freedom of speech through our ability to protest.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIf someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.
How ‘Ethical’ Hotel Chain Marriott Gouges Guests in the Name of Wi-Fi Security | Kyle Chayka | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne detainee was bent over for a rectal feeding that involved ensure, the protein shake.
To ensure that all Afghan women see the gains of the last decade, we need to understand, support and enhance existing systems.
His first business was to provide a proper train to ensure the quick and easy mobilisation of the artillery.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThe registrars will, in that event, ensure the moral growth of existing societies before multiplying them.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma GandhiPrincipally to ensure military dominance, the conquerors made many main roads, mostly centering in London.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanIn the meantime the university had taken steps to ensure the suppression of heretical books.
A History of the Cambridge University Press | S. C. RobertsNow, five minutes' rest taken at the right time may ensure those persons' safety as well as our own.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne Sue
British Dictionary definitions for ensure
esp US insure
/ (ɛnˈʃʊə, -ˈʃɔː) /
(may take a clause as object) to make certain or sure; guarantee: this victory will ensure his happiness
to make safe or secure; protect
Derived forms of ensure
- ensurer, noun
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