ensuring
4 synonyms for ensuring, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — Present participle of ensure: making certain that something happens or is the case.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
How to use ensuring
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
thereby ensuring
ensuring compliance
ensuring that
aimed at ensuring
Neutral; heavy use in policy, corporate and job-description writing can make prose feel bureaucratic.
Etymology
From ensure, from Anglo-Norman enseurer, ultimately related to Latin securus "safe, secure".
Full origin of ensuring →Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ensuring, insuring and assuring?
Ensuring means making certain something happens; insuring means buying financial cover against a risk; assuring means telling someone something confidently so they stop worrying. "Ensuring the roof is sound" is not the same as "insuring the roof".
Is "ensuring that" or "ensuring" correct?
Both are correct. "Ensuring that everyone is paid" is slightly more formal and can be clearer in long sentences; dropping "that" is perfectly standard in ordinary writing.
Can ensuring take a person as its object?
Not in modern English. You ensure a result, not a person: write "ensuring that staff are trained", not "ensuring staff of training".
