English Online Dictionary. What means ensure? What does ensure mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈʃʊə/, /ɪnˈʃɔː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈʃʊɹ/, /ɪnˈʃɝ/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)
Verb
ensure (third-person singular simple present ensures, present participle ensuring, simple past and past participle ensured)
- (transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. [14th–18th c.]
- (intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). [from 18th c.]
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Anagrams
- enures, reunes, ursene, Nereus