Verb

(es)

To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate

He assessed the situation.

To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.

The referee assessed a penalty for delaying the game.

A $10.00 late fee will be assessed on all overdue accounts.

To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

Once you've submitted a tax return, the Tax Department will assess the amount of tax you still owe.

Verb

(ensur)

To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.

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*: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

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=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.}}