Usually means: Ensure something is definitely confirmed.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word make sure:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. make sure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. make sure: Merriam-Webster
  3. make sure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. make sure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. make sure: Vocabulary.com
  6. make sure (that): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. make sure: Wiktionary
  8. make sure: Dictionary.com
  9. make sure: Rhymezone
  10. make sure: FreeDictionary.org
  11. make sure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. make sure: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. make sure: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. make sure: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (make sure)

verb:  To ensure that something specific happens, is done etc., or of something happening.
verb:  To make oneself certain (of something, or that something is the case); to verify, to ascertain.
verb:  (now rare) To feel certain of something; to be convinced.
verb:  (obsolete) To betroth.

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