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Security   /sɪkjˈʊrəti/   Listen
Security

noun
(pl. securities)
1.
The state of being free from danger or injury.
2.
Defense against financial failure; financial independence.  Synonym: protection.  "Insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"
3.
Freedom from anxiety or fear.
4.
A formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends.  Synonym: certificate.
5.
Property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation.  Synonym: surety.
6.
A department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers.  Synonym: security department.
7.
A guarantee that an obligation will be met.  Synonym: surety.
8.
An electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in.  Synonyms: security measure, security system.
9.
Measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc..  Synonym: security measures.



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"Security" Quotes from Famous Books



... are not furnished with the usual flood-gates; but the term is also used for what is more appropriately called a float (which see). Also, in polar parlance, an opening cut out of an ice-floe, into which a ship is warped for security. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... make my will sound. He says he'll contest it"— she gave her grunt of amusement. "Pity I can't see him do it! I'd like the fun of it. It will be cast-iron. If there was any doubt about it, I would realize on every security I own to-morrow and give it all away in one lump, now, while I'm alive—if I had to go hungry myself afterward! Will you ask Howe and Marston to send their Mr. Marston up here to draw up a new will for me? I want to go to work on it to-night. ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... Cavendish had anticipated, were lulled to security by the supposition that the English, having secured the plate fleet, would have no reason or incentive for returning, and fondly hoped that, as soon as the repairs to the ships were finished, they would sail away; and that would be the last they would ...
— Across the Spanish Main - A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood
... second half of it," von Schlichten said. "And we'll also have to set up some kind of security-patrol system against bombers from Keegark. And as soon as Procyon gets here, we'll have to send her out to hunt down and destroy those two Boer-class freighters, the Jan Smuts and the Kruger. And we'll have to arrange for protection of Kankad's Town; that's sure to be another of Orgzild's ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... see thou dost enjoy it. But we have already learned all we want to know, so far as goeth to the security of the castle. There is but one marquis in Raglan, and he is, I believe, in ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald


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