Guaranteed vs Ensure - What's the difference?
guaranteed | ensure |
(guarantee)
Anything that assures a certain outcome.
A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly.
A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
The person to whom a guarantee is made.
To assure that something will get done right.
To assume responsibility for a debt.
To make something certain.
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=
As verbs the difference between guaranteed and ensure
is that guaranteed is (guarantee) while ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.guaranteed
English
Verb
(head)guarantee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
- The cooker comes with a 5-year guarantee .
- (South)
Verb
(d)- The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.
Synonyms
* assure * warrantensure
English
Verb
(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.}}
