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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishensuren, fromAnglo-Normanenseurer, fromOld Frenchseur(“sure”).

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ensure (third-person singular simple presentensures,present participleensuring,simple past and past participleensured)

  1. (transitive) To make apledge to (someone); topromise,guarantee (someone of something); toassure.[14th–18th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To makesure orcertain of something (usually some future event or condition).[from 18th c.]
    I use an alarm clock toensure that I get up on time.
    • 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      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 subsidiesensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.

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assure—seeassure
make sure or certain

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