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(ɪnʃʊəʳ)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense ensures, present participle ensuring, past tense, past participle ensured
verb
To ensure something, or to ensure that something happens, means to make certain that it happens.
[formal]
Negotiators ensured that the treaty was a significant change in direction. [VERB that]
Ensure that it is written into your contract. [VERB that]
...the President's Council, which ensures the supremacy of the National Party. [VERB noun]
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ensure in British English

(ɛnˈʃʊə, -ˈʃɔː) or especially US insure
verb (transitive)
1. (may take a clause as object)
to make certain or sure; guarantee
this victory will ensure his happiness
2. 
to make safe or secure; protect
Derived forms
ensurer (enˈsurer)
noun

ensure in American English

(ɛnˈʃʊr; ɪnˈʃʊr)
verb transitiveWord forms: enˈsured or enˈsuring
1. 
to make sure or certain; guarantee; secure
measures to ensure accuracy
2. 
to make safe; protect
safety devices to ensure workers against accidents
3.  Obsolete
insure
Word origin
ME ensuren < Anglo-Fr enseurer (for OFr asseurer: see assure) < en- (see en-1) + OFr seur, sure

Examples of 'ensure' in a sentence
ensure

It also ensures they add a bit of crunch and texture to your filling.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It has now launched an investigation into the ticket sales industry to ensure consumers are protected.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The government must ensure consumers are getting their energy at a fair and affordable price.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
One of the difficulties pollsters face is ensuring that the people they reach are typical.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
And how much sun screen should you slap on to ensure you are protected?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She must ensure these firms put profits second to providing this essential service at the cheapest cost.
The Sun (2016)
It said many positive measures had been introduced since then to ensure that young people were protected.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We will also ensure these matters are addressed urgently by the supplier in the best interests of the workers.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
As they get older we teach them how cookers work, carefully supervising to ensure they're safe.
The Sun (2016)
To ensure direction of the interview the interviewer will need to focus replies.
Torrington, Derek Personnel Management: A New Approach (1991)
You can talk about money in a calm and factual way that ensures people listen.
The Sun (2014)
Western navies patrol it to ensure their safe passage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Most of these have now undergone a fix to ensure users are protected.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They also ensure that it retains its colour in winter before bursting back into life in spring.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Blackpool need a victory to ensure that they avoid relegation.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They must also ensure that the food produces precisely the right puns.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The moon returns to your birth sign ensuring people will be receptive to your ideas and requests.
The Sun (2009)
So here are our tips to help you ensure your safe return home during the big freeze.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The bank will also ensure you do not pay bank charges due to this problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The calm way you talk about money ensures people take you seriously.
The Sun (2014)
It is imperative to ensure you also get a share of the goodies.
Bethune, Helen Positive Parent Power (1991)
But he must now ensure that the last laugh in this saga is not on himself.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Justice is partly about ensuring people see the error of their ways.
The Sun (2013)
The government must also ensure that the system is not susceptible to security breaches that have happened with other online data.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The staff were amazingly efficient and always pointed us in the right direction to ensure that we made the most of our stay.
The Sun (2013)
Only the regulator can ensure cabs are safe and rooms not a health risk, they contend.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To ensure yours is protected, search the sites using the address of your flat.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is the best way to ensure the safe future of the animals involved as well as staff whose employment relies on the sport.
The Sun (2015)
Our responsibility is to ensure that the direction we're going in conforms to Scripture.
Christianity Today (2000)

In other languages
ensure

British English: ensure /ɛnˈʃʊə; -ˈʃɔː/ VERB
To ensure that something happens means to make certain that it happens.
Ensure that your address is correct.
  • American English: ensure
  • Arabic: يَتَأَكَّدُ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: assegurar
  • Chinese: 保证
  • Croatian: osigurati
  • Czech: zajistit
  • Danish: sikre
  • Dutch: ervoor zorgen
  • European Spanish: asegurar garantizar
  • Finnish: varmistaa
  • French: s’assurer que
  • German: sicherstellen
  • Greek: διασφαλίζω
  • Italian: assicurare
  • Japanese: 保証する
  • Korean: 보장하다
  • Norwegian: sørge for
  • Polish: zapewnić
  • European Portuguese: assegurar
  • Romanian: a se asigura
  • Russian: гарантировать
  • Latin American Spanish: asegurarse
  • Swedish: garantera
  • Thai: ทำให้แน่ใจว่า
  • Turkish: garantiye almak
  • Ukrainian: забезпечувати
  • Vietnamese: bảo đảm

All related terms of 'ensure'

ensure health
A person's health is the condition of their body and the extent to which it is free from illness or is able to resist illness.
ensure peace
If there is peace in a country or in the world, there are no wars or violent conflicts going on.
ensure safety
Safety is the state of being safe from harm or danger .
ensure security
Security refers to all the measures that are taken to protect a place, or to ensure that only people with permission enter it or leave it.
ensure protection
To give or be protection against something unpleasant means to prevent people or things from being harmed or damaged by it.
ensure the future
The future is the period of time that will come after the present , or the things that will happen then.

Chinese translation of 'ensure'

ensure

(ɪnˈʃuəʳ) (frm)

vt

  1. [success, safety] 保证(證) (bǎozhèng)
    to ensure that ... 保证(證) ... (bǎozhèng ... )
1 (verb) 
Definition
to make certain
Steps must be taken to ensure this never happens again.
Synonyms
make certain
guarantee
Surplus resources alone do not guarantee growth.
secure
make sure
Before you cut the cloth, make sure the pattern matches up.
confirm
I can confirm that the area is now in rebel hands.
warrant
The ship owner must warrant that his vessel is seaworthy.
certify
They have certified the document as genuine.
2 (verb) 
Definition
to make safe or protect
The plan is aimed at ensuring the future of freshwater fish species.
Synonyms
protect
He vowed to protect them.
defend
They defended themselves against some thugs.
secure
The loan is secured against your home.
safeguard
international action to safeguard the ozone layer
guard
Sentries guarded the entrance to the building.
make safe

Additional synonyms

in the sense of certify
Definition
to guarantee (that certain required standards have been met)
They have certified the document as genuine.
Synonyms
confirm,
show,
declare,
guarantee,
witness,
assure,
endorse,
testify,
notify,
verify,
ascertain,
validate,
attest,
corroborate,
avow,
authenticate,
vouch for,
aver
in the sense of confirm
Definition
to reaffirm (something), so as to make (it) more definite
I can confirm that the area is now in rebel hands.
Synonyms
affirm,
state,
declare,
assert,
testify,
pronounce,
certify,
attest,
aver,
asseverate (formal),
avouch
in the sense of defend
Definition
to protect from harm or danger
They defended themselves against some thugs.
Synonyms
protect,
cover,
guard,
screen,
secure,
preserve,
look after,
shelter,
shield,
harbour,
safeguard,
fortify,
ward off,
watch over,
stick up for (informal),
keep safe,
give sanctuary

Synonyms of 'ensure'

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