Ensure vs Insure - What's the difference?
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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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, title= To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
(chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
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: To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
Insure is a related term of ensure.
In transitive terms the difference between ensure and insure
is that ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure while insure is to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.In intransitive terms the difference between ensure and insure
is that ensure is to make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition) while insure is to deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance.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.}}
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- I'm not insured against burglary.
- ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- He insured me that there would be no further delays.
