Re: insure or ensure (was: RE: Warnings)

Subject: Re: insure or ensure (was: RE: Warnings)
From: "ROGERS, MARTHA (CONTRACTOR)" <MARTHA -dot- ROGERS -at- DFAS -dot- MIL>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:41:49 -0600


After checking an online dictionary (www.yourdictionary.com) and my Webster's Riverside II, it seems "insure" and "ensure" are interchangeable. Each can mean "to make secure or certain."

Lindsey wrote:
<I believe that should be "ensure." "Insure" refers
<only to the selling or buying of insurance policies.
<"Ensure" means to make sure.



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