Ensure
verb
To make sure that something will definitely happen or be available.
Please ensure that the doors are locked.
Often appears as...
- ensure compliance
- ensure safety
verb
To make something certain to happen.
The contract ensures the company's regular income.
Often appears as...
- ensure payment
- ensure delivery
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To make something safe or certain.
These measures are intended to ensure patient safety.
Often appears as...
- ensure safety
- ensure quality
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Approving
Technical
verb
To make sure that something will definitely happen or be available.
Please ensure that the doors are locked.
Often appears as...
- ensure compliance
- ensure safety
verb
To make something certain to happen.
The contract ensures the company's regular income.
Often appears as...
- ensure payment
- ensure delivery
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To make something safe or certain.
These measures are intended to ensure patient safety.
Often appears as...
- ensure safety
- ensure quality
Usage tips
Approving
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Action Required
Use 'ensure' when an action must be taken to guarantee an outcome.
Ensure you study daily to improve your English.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Certainty
'Ensure' often relates to something that will happen in the future.
Ensure your passport is valid for your trip next month.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Responsibility
Indicates personal obligation to make something happen.
You must ensure you are on time for the meeting.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Required
Use 'ensure' when an action must be taken to guarantee an outcome.
Ensure you study daily to improve your English.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Certainty
'Ensure' often relates to something that will happen in the future.
Ensure your passport is valid for your trip next month.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Responsibility
Indicates personal obligation to make something happen.
You must ensure you are on time for the meeting.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Required
Use 'ensure' when an action must be taken to guarantee an outcome.
Ensure you study daily to improve your English.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Certainty
'Ensure' often relates to something that will happen in the future.
Ensure your passport is valid for your trip next month.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Responsibility
Indicates personal obligation to make something happen.
You must ensure you are on time for the meeting.
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Video examples
What happens when our...
The risk is that if somebody figures out how to crack the first challenge without also having cracked the additional challenge of ensuring perfect safety. So I think that we should work out a solution to the control problem in advance, so that we have it available by the time it is needed.
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Why do cats act so...
so one explanation for Grizmo's propensity to reach into containers and openings is that she is compelled by the same curiosity that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before. In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense.
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Does grammar matter? -...
For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken. But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.
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How to rebuild the world...
now finally I want to focus much more on the long-term we've talked about how you can put food in your belly and harness fire for creating crucial chemistry and driving machinery for you but there's something else just as important how can you ensure that your society develops
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Can you solve the temple...
and because the possessed students may lie only occasionally, there is no guaranteed way to test them to determine which are cursed. Can you figure out a way to ensure that you all escape? Don't worry about the possessed students attacking or otherwise harming the others.
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One Man’s Mission to...
propagate these things ensures the world ouvert our micro propagation in tissue culture lab the main goals for that was basically research and development on how to make a million trees to send everywhere what this is is taking very
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Can you solve the...
and the dictator has ensured they can't learn their own eye color. There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves.
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Why elephants never...
ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide. Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure
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How does anesthesia...
replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations. And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more patients survive the trauma of surgery.
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The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
The hunter pays tribute to his quarry's courage and strength with ceremonial gestures that ensure that its spirit returns to the desert sands from which it came.
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What happens when our...
The risk is that if somebody figures out how to crack the first challenge without also having cracked the additional challenge of ensuring perfect safety. So I think that we should work out a solution to the control problem in advance, so that we have it available by the time it is needed.
Video examples
Why do cats act so...
so one explanation for Grizmo's propensity to reach into containers and openings is that she is compelled by the same curiosity that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before. In the wild, cats needed sharp claws for climbing, hunting, and self-defense.
Video examples
Does grammar matter? -...
For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken. But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
now finally I want to focus much more on the long-term we've talked about how you can put food in your belly and harness fire for creating crucial chemistry and driving machinery for you but there's something else just as important how can you ensure that your society develops
Video examples
Can you solve the temple...
and because the possessed students may lie only occasionally, there is no guaranteed way to test them to determine which are cursed. Can you figure out a way to ensure that you all escape? Don't worry about the possessed students attacking or otherwise harming the others.
Video examples
One Man’s Mission to...
propagate these things ensures the world ouvert our micro propagation in tissue culture lab the main goals for that was basically research and development on how to make a million trees to send everywhere what this is is taking very
Video examples
Can you solve the...
and the dictator has ensured they can't learn their own eye color. There are no reflective surfaces, all water is in opaque containers, and most importantly, they're not allowed to communicate among themselves.
Video examples
Why elephants never...
ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide. Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure
Video examples
How does anesthesia...
replace damaged livers and kidneys, and many other life-saving operations. And each year, new anesthesia techniques are developed that will ensure more and more patients survive the trauma of surgery.
Video examples
The Intense 8 Hour Hunt...
The hunter pays tribute to his quarry's courage and strength with ceremonial gestures that ensure that its spirit returns to the desert sands from which it came.
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American Politician
Americans have bravely risen to overcome great challenges, but we still have a long way to go to ensure that everyone shares in the freedom to dream of and achieve a better life for themselves and their kids.
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Fabiola Gianotti
Italian Physicist
My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.
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Calvin Coolidge
American President
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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Hasso Plattner
German Businessman
I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
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Gurpreet Ghuggi
Indian Actor
AAP will ensure that farmers get back their respect in the state when it comes to power.
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Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.
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Jan Schakowsky
American Politician
We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.
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Sheikh Hasina
Bangladeshi Statesman
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
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Alfred Nobel
Swedish Scientist
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Eric Swalwell
American Politician
Americans have bravely risen to overcome great challenges, but we still have a long way to go to ensure that everyone shares in the freedom to dream of and achieve a better life for themselves and their kids.
Quote examples
Fabiola Gianotti
Italian Physicist
My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
Quote examples
Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.
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Calvin Coolidge
American President
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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Hasso Plattner
German Businessman
I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
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Gurpreet Ghuggi
Indian Actor
AAP will ensure that farmers get back their respect in the state when it comes to power.
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Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.
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Jan Schakowsky
American Politician
We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.
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Sheikh Hasina
Bangladeshi Statesman
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
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Alfred Nobel
Swedish Scientist
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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