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19 Apr 2018
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What is the difference between secure and ensure ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between secure and ensure ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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From what I know, 'to ensure smth.' means smth. will surely be provided, even if that something needs to be created.
"To secure smth. for smbdy." means to make sure that nobody else gets that smth apart from that smbdy. That smth. already exists.
I hope I made myself clear. :)
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To “ensure” something is the consolidation and verification of making sure something happens.
To “secure” something, is to make sure something is kept safe.
“Securing” something has the feeling of making sure something is kept ‘safe’, whereas “ensure” has a feeling leaning more towards making sure the ‘event’ happens.
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As verbs, 'to secure' and 'to ensure' have similar, but not the same, meanings.
For example, 'to secure' can mean that you are getting or receiving something.
eg. "I will secure the documents."
This implies that this person is going to get the documents.
'To ensure' more implies that you are going to make a particular outcome more certain.
eg. "I will ensure the documents are handed to me."
This person is going to do something to make certain that they will recieve the documents.
To me, 'ensure' is less certain, and it implies an extra action.
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