ensure
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- Stati Uniti//ɪnˈʃʊɹ//
- Stati Uniti//ɪnˈʃɝ//
- //ɪnˈʃɔː(ɹ)//
- //ɪnˈʃʊə(ɹ)//
To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
verbo
- 1
To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
I use an alarm clock to ensure that I get up on time.
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.
- 2
obsoletoTo make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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
Etimologia
From Middle English ensuren, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, from Old French seur (“sure”). Doublet of insure.
Forme
- passato
- ensured
- participio passato
- ensured
- participio presente
- ensuring
- 3ª persona singolare
- ensures
ensure · To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
enter · To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.Enter · The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.entering · action of the verb to enter