{
    "term": "ensure",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "ensure",
            "heSheIt": "ensures"
        },
        "pastSimple": "ensured",
        "pastParticiple": "ensured",
        "ingForm": "ensuring"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make sure that something happens or is definite",
            "sensetop": "ensure somethingensure somebody somethingensure something for somebodyensure (that)…",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are working to **ensure the safety** of people in the city.",
                    "contextForm": "ensure something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book ensured his success."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We must take steps now to ensure the survival of these animals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Victory ensured them a place in the final.",
                    "contextForm": "ensure somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system ensures all children equal access to education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system ensures equal access to education for all children.",
                    "contextForm": "ensure something for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government needs to ensure (that) workers' rights are respected.",
                    "contextForm": "ensure (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rent rises were limited in order to ensure that housing remained affordable."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Forces were brought in to ensure security for tourists."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please ensure (that) all lights are switched off."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system not only ensures maximum discounts, but also helps the company track usage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "provisions designed to ensure safe conditions of work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The therapist must treat the cause of the problem, thereby ensuring the symptoms do not return."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The alternative simply ensures that the problem will get worse."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["practically", "virtually", "effectively"],
                "verb + ensure": ["must", "aim to", "try to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an attempt to ensure something",
                    "efforts to ensure something",
                    "measures to ensure something"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊə(r)//ɪnˈʃɔː(r)/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensure__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊəz//ɪnˈʃɔːz/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensures__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊəd//ɪnˈʃɔːd/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensured__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊərɪŋ//ɪnˈʃɔːrɪŋ/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensuring__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊr/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensure__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊrz/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensures__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊrd/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensured__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈʃʊrɪŋ/",
                "audio": "en/ensure/ensuring__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the senses ‘convince’ and ‘make safe’): from Anglo-Norman French enseurer, alteration of Old French aseurer, earlier form of assurer, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ (expressing change) + securus, from se- ‘without’ + cura ‘care’. Compare with insure."
}