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.
- insure(defs 1–3).
Origin of ensure
Synonyms for ensure
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for ensured
insure, protect, secure, provide, assure, safeguard, establish, certify, okay, confirm, clinch, effect, guard, cinch, warrant, arrangeExamples from the Web for ensured
Contemporary Examples of ensured
In fact, HGTV has ensured that at least one of their shows airs a brand new episode each week of the year.
That confrontation all but ensured that their bill would have trouble getting enough Republican votes in either chamber.
Yet in his state-within-a-state in the 1980s and 1990s, Dostum ensured more gender equality than almost any other Afghan leader.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’Bruce Riedel
July 27, 2014
Western and American interests and safety can no longer be ensured by traditional means.
In the subsequent parody, The Dark Knight Rises XXX, Braun ensured that his script and costumes would endure fan critiques.
Historical Examples of ensured
For they left nothing to chance that could be ensured by effort.
England and GermanyEmile Joseph Dillon
After these vigorous but justifiable measures, obedience was ensured.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
It was the defeat of his schemes in America that ensured their defeat in England.
The War of IndependenceJohn Fiske
This ensured a good bond between the wall proper and the footing.
Concrete ConstructionHalbert P. Gillette
We may well be ensured that no wrong shall be done to them that have done no wrong.
In Convent WallsEmily Sarah Holt
ensure
esp US insure
- (may take a clause as object) to make certain or sure; guaranteethis victory will ensure his happiness
- to make safe or secure; protect