Ensure Meaning
/ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
verbTo make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
Sentence Examples
This medicine will ensure you a good night's sleep.
I'll do my best to ensure that such mistakes don't occur in the future.
We are working to ensure the safety of people in the city.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Please double-check the calculations to ____ that there are no errors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We must take precautions to ____ the safety of all passengers on the flight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”). Doublet of insure.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
"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"
— 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Please double-check the calculations to ____ that there are no errors.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We must take precautions to ____ the safety of all passengers on the flight.