Certify vs Ensure - What's the difference?
certify | ensure |
to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As verbs the difference between certify and ensure
is that certify is to attest to as the truth or meeting a standard while ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.certify
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* (to attest as to) attest, witness, vouch for, approve, confirmDerived terms
* certifiable * decertifyAnagrams
*ensure
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(ensur)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.}}