ensuring

verb

USin-SHUUR-ing/ɪnˈʃʊɹɪŋ/UKin-SHOOR-ing/ɪnˈʃʊəɹɪŋ/

1 meaning of ensuring

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verb
Present participle and gerund of ensure.
The committee is ensuring that every member receives equal access to the records.
Ensuring compliance with the new regulations took months of careful preparation.
Note
A single -ing form does two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it is the progressive verb (the committee is ensuring that…). At the head of a phrase it acts as a noun, serving as subject or object (ensuring compliance took months). In both roles it carries the modern meaning of making an outcome certain, usually a future one. The older use, pledging or assuring a person of something, is obsolete, so ensuring someone of support now reads as an error for assuring.

ensuring is a form of ensure

ensure, verb: To make certain that something (usually a future event or condition) will come about. Full entry

Forms: ensureensures he/she/itensuring -ing formensured past tense, past participle
Spelling: ensure → ensuring: drop the e, add -ing

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