When to use Ensure versus insure?

To ensure something is to make sure it happens—to guarantee it. To insure something or someone is to cover it with an insurance policy.

How do you use the word ensure?

Ensure sentence example

1. She froze then looked around to ensure no one was there to overhear them.
2. She made him what he was, but his suffering was necessary to ensure his survival.
3. To ensure this preferred outcome came to fruition.

How do you use insure in a sentence?

Examples of insure in a Sentence I found a company that will insure my car for less than I’ve been paying. This policy will insure your car against theft. She had difficulty finding a company that would insure her. They take great care to insure the safety and security of their home.

What is the confusing word for insure?

The three words, assure, ensure, and insure, are often confused. All three words share an element of “making an outcome sure.” However, rather than using these words interchangeably, I’d like to point out the unique aspects of each word so that you can use them to communicate your intention clearly.

What do u mean by insurance?

What Is Insurance? Insurance is a contract, represented by a policy, in which an individual or entity receives financial protection or reimbursement against losses from an insurance company. The company pools clients’ risks to make payments more affordable for the insured.

What is the difference between insured and assured?

Insurance guarantees financial coverage against loss or damage caused due to an uncertain event (an event which might not necessarily happen example: fire, theft, earthquake, etc.) Assurance guarantees financial coverage against loss or damage caused due to an event that is sure to happen example Death.

Is it correct to say ensure that?

You ensure that something will happen by taking extra precautions. If you’re trying to say “make sure,” then ensure is the correct word to use. Use ensure in the following ways: The dog owner always would ensure that he returned home quickly.

Can you say ensure to?

assure/ ensure/ insure To assure is to tell someone everything’s ok, to ensure is to make certain, and to insure is to protect financially.

Is it ensure or ensure that?

There is no ‘official source’ for anything in the English language: there is only what English-speakers actually say and write. And before a clause, ‘that’ is almost always optional: ‘The supervisor must ensure (that) all requests are properly reviewed’ is equally good with or without ‘that’.

Can you use ensure and insure interchangeably?

To “assure” a person of something is to make him or her confident of it. According to Associated Press style, to “ensure” that something happens is to make certain that it does, and to “insure” is to issue an insurance policy. Other authorities, however, consider “ensure” and “insure” interchangeable.

Is ensure a proper word?

We define ensure as “to make sure, certain, or safe” and one sense of insure, “to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions,” is quite similar. But insure has the additional meaning “to provide or obtain insurance on or for,” which is not shared by ensure.

What may be insured?

The following risks may be insured: Any contingent or unknown event whether past or future which may cause damage to a person having an insurable interest; or. Any contingent or unknown event, whether past or future, which may create liability against the person insured.