ensure
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ensure /ɪnˈʃɔː, -ˈʃʊə, ɛn-/
▶verb make certain that (something) will occur or be so.
■ (ensure against) make sure that (a problem) does not occur.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. enseurer. alt. of OFr. aseurer, earlier form of assurer (see assure).
usage: On the difference between ensure and insure, see usage at insure.
'ensure' also found in these Oxford entries:
Alexander technique
- balance
- ballast
- bond
- certain
- designer baby
- dot
- establish
- fertility cult
- forget-me-not
- frank
- insure
- keyway
- moderate
- promote
- referee
- security
- see
- seed
- starting gate
- sure
- survivalism
- triplex
- vet
- whip
- year
