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Commitment vs Ensure - What's the difference?

commitment | ensure |

As a noun commitment

is the act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially.

As a verb ensure is

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

commitment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
  • # The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
  • # Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution
  • Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
  • # Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date
  • Being bound emotionally/intellectually to a course of action or to another person/other persons.
  • The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
  • Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
  • State of being pledged or engaged.
  • The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or jail.
  • Synonyms

    * allegiance * charge * committal * consignment * dedication * devoir * duty * engagement * guarantee * loyalty * liability * must * need * obligation * ought * pledge * promise * responsibility * undertaking * vow * word

    ensure

    English

    Verb

    (ensur)
  • To 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
  • To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
  • :
  • *{{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.}}

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