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ensure [ en·sure ]
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1. Make certain that (something) will occur or be the case.
the client must ensure that accurate records are kept
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2. Make certain of obtaining or providing (something)
Decentralisation of power is the key to ensuring smooth conduct of examinations.
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3. (ensure against) Make sure that (a problem) does not occur.
It was therefore up to them to ensure against a collapse and they did so convincingly.
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1. On the difference between ensure and insure, see insure
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1. Late Middle English (in the senses ‘convince’ and ‘make safe’): from Anglo-Norman French enseurer, alteration of Old French aseurer, earlier form of assurer (see assure). Compare with insure.
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