ensure

ensure
(also insure esp. in AmE) verb
ADVERB
▪ practically, virtually
▪ effectively
▪ (not) only, simply
▪

The system not only ensures maximum discounts, but also helps the company track usage.

▪

The alternative simply ensures that the problem will get worse.

VERB + ENSURE
▪ must
▪ aim to, try to
▪ take action to, take care to, take steps to
▪

We must take steps now to ensure the survival of these animals.

▪ be designed to
▪

provisions designed to ensure safe conditions of work

▪ help (to)
▪ be important to, be necessary to, be sufficient to
▪

It is important to ensure that delegates have been properly briefed.

PHRASES
▪ an attempt to ensure sth
▪ efforts to ensure sth, measures to ensure sth
▪ thereby ensuring sth
▪

The therapist must treat the cause of the problem, thereby ensuring the symptoms do not return.

Ensure is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑mechanism

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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