ensure vs insure
Definitions
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- make certain of
Examples
You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival?
Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them.
Definitions
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- make certain of
- protect by insurance
- take out insurance for
Examples
More serious motoring offences such as uninsured driving would carry a £10 surcharge.
Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
When she died, the insurance company cancelled the policy, because it would not insure an empty house.
