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ensure

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 14.03.2026

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millegi olemasoluks, toimumiseks, teokssaamiseks vajalikke tingimusi täitma, millelegi tagatist või tagatisi andma või looma, midagi kindlustama
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ID 680337 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain terms and phraseological elements particular to legal language
tagama preferred
ensure preferred
assure
  • to make certain the occurrence or arrival of (an event), or the attainment of (a result)
tagama preferred
Usage examples
  • Valitsusasutuste ja nende hallatavate riigiasutuste tegevuse seaduslikkuse ja otstarbekuse tagamiseks korraldatakse teenistuslikku järelevalvet.
  • Kui testamendiga ei testamenditäitja ülesandeid määratud, on testamenditäitja kohustatud hoolt kandma, et testaatori viimne tahe saaks täidetud.
hoolt kandma
ensure preferred
Usage examples
  • If accreditation is withdrawn, the Member State shall designate another paying agency in accordance with the conditions in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 and in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article and ensures that payments to beneficiaries are not interrupted.
  • During the two months following the end of each quarter, Member States shall inform the Commission, with reference back to any previous report made under Article 3, of the procedures instituted following all irregularities previously notified and of important changes resulting therefrom, including: ... the interim measures taken by Member States to safeguard recovery of sums wrongly paid.
Good to know
  • The form insure is properly a mere variant of ensure, and still occasionally appears in all the surviving senses. In general usage, however, it is now limited to the financial sense (with reference to 'insurance´ of life or property), in which the form ensure is wholly obsolete.
assure
safeguard

Riigi Teataja terminisõnastik

ID 639770 Last modified 10.10.2023
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ensure
insure former
ensure
insure former

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