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From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#ENSURE Category:English terms derived from Middle English#ENSURE ensuren, from Anglo-Norman Category:English terms derived from Anglo-Norman#ENSURE enseurer, from Old French Category:English terms derived from Old French#ENSURE seur (“sure”). Doublet of insureCategory:English doublets#ENSURE.

Pronunciation

Verb

ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)Category:English lemmas#ENSURE Category:English verbs#ENSURE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ENSURE Category:Pages with entries#ENSURE Category:Pages with 1 entry#ENSURE

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#ENSURE) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]
I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.Category:English terms with usage examples#ENSURE
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#ENSURE, obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#ENSURE) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. [14th–18th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:
  Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Derived terms

ensurer

Related terms

Translations

assure — see assure

make sure or certain — see also guarantee

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Azerbaijani: təmin etməkCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#ENSURE
Bashkir: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Bashkir#ENSURE
Basque: segurtatuCategory:Terms with Basque translations#ENSURE
Belarusian: упэўніцца pf (upewnicca)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#ENSURE, упэўнівацца impf (upewnivacca)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#ENSURE, пераканацца pf (pjerakanacca)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#ENSURE, пераконвацца impf (pjerakónvacca)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#ENSURE
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Bikol:
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Breton: asuriCategory:Terms with Breton translations#ENSURE
Bulgarian: осигурявам (bg) (osigurjavam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ENSURE, осигуря́ pf (osigurjá)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ENSURE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 確保 / 确保 (zh) (quèbǎo)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ENSURE
Czech: zajistit (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#ENSURE
Dutch: garanderen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#ENSURE, verzekeren (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#ENSURE, waarborgen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#ENSURE
Finnish: varmistaa (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ENSURE
French: s'assurer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ENSURE, garantir (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ENSURE, assurer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#ENSURE
German: sicherstellen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ENSURE, gewährleisten (de)Category:Terms with German translations#ENSURE
Haitian Creole: asireCategory:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#ENSURE
Hungarian: gondoskodik (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#ENSURE, tesz rólaCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#ENSURE, gondja van ráCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#ENSURE, biztosít (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#ENSURE
Ido: certigar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#ENSURE
Italian: garantire (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#ENSURE, assicurare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#ENSURE, fare in modo cheCategory:Terms with Italian translations#ENSURE
Lü: ᦁᦱᦙᦃᦱᧄᧈ (ʼaamẋaam¹)Category:Terms with Lü translations#ENSURE
Malayalam: ഉറപ്പാക്കൂ (uṟappākkū)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#ENSURE
Manx: shickyreeCategory:Terms with Manx translations#ENSURE
Māori: whakatūturuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#ENSURE
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Old English: lōcianCategory:Terms with Old English translations#ENSURE
Polish: zapewnić (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ENSURE, zapewniać (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ENSURE, upewnić (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ENSURE, upewniać impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ENSURE, utwierdzić (pl) pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ENSURE
Portuguese: garantir (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#ENSURE, assegurar (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#ENSURE
Romanian: asigura (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#ENSURE
Russian: удостове́риться (ru) (udostovéritʹsja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ENSURE, убеди́ться (ru) (ubedítʹsja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ENSURE, страхова́ться (ru) impf (straxovátʹsja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ENSURE, подстрахова́ться (ru) pf (podstraxovátʹsja)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ENSURE
Spanish: asegurarse (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#ENSURE, garantizarseCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#ENSURE, velar porCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#ENSURE
Swedish: se till (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#ENSURE, säkerställa (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#ENSURE
Turkish: sağlamak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ENSURE, garantiye almakCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#ENSURE, emin olmak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#ENSURE, güvence vermekCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#ENSURE
Ukrainian: забезпе́чувати impf (zabezpéčuvaty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ENSURE, забезпе́чити pf (zabezpéčyty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ENSURE, гарантува́ти impf (harantuváty)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#ENSURE
Welsh: sicrháuCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#ENSURE

Anagrams

enures, reunes, ursene, Nereus