| ENSURE | • ensure v. (Transitive) To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. • ensure v. (Intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). • ENSURE v. to make sure. |
| INSURE | • insure v. (Transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract)… • insure v. (Intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance. • insure v. (Chiefly US, transitive, dated) Alternative spelling of ensure; to make sure or certain of; guarantee. |
| UNSURE | • unsure adj. Uncertain. • unsure adj. Unstable or precarious. • UNSURE adj. not sure. |
| CENSURE | • censure n. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension. • censure n. An official reprimand. • censure n. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. |
| TONSURE | • tonsure v. (Christianity, Buddhism) To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation. • tonsure n. A ritual shaving of this kind. • tonsure n. The bald patch resulting from being tonsured. |
| COINSURE | • coinsure v. To insure (or be insured) jointly with another. • coinsure v. To take out coinsurance. • COINSURE v. to insure with another. |
| REINSURE | • reinsure v. (Transitive) To insure again (extending or replacing prior insurance). • reinsure v. (Transitive) To place insurance on the contract that insures something (allowing the insurer to offset… • REINSURE v. to insure again. |
| LICENSURE | • licensure n. The act of conferring a license for an activity. • licensure n. The condition of being licensed. • LICENSURE n. the act of licensing or granting of a licence, esp. for professional practice. |
| OVERINSURE | • overinsure v. (Transitive) To insure for too great a value. • OVERINSURE v. to insure to excess. |
| RELICENSURE | • relicensure n. The act or process of reobtaining a license, either as a renewal or after a period of lapse or delicensure. • RELICENSURE n. a renewal of a licensure. |
| UNDERINSURE | • underinsure v. To insure insufficiently. • UNDERINSURE v. to insure insufficiently. |