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Security   /sɪkjˈʊrəti/   Listen
Security

noun
(pl. securities)
1.
The state of being free from danger or injury.  Antonym: insecurity.
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



... this secret you were to reveal to me?" Gerfaut interrupted, with a smile which seemed to denote perfect security. ...
— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... upon some publick Occasion, the publick Treasurers of the Land sent to the capital City, to borrow 500000 Lunarians upon very good Security of establisht Funds; truly no Body would lend any Mony, or at least they could not raise above a 5th part of that Sum, enquiring at the Bank, at their general Societies Cash, and other Places, all was languid and dull, and no Mony to be had; but being inform'd that the Crolians had erected ...
— The Consolidator • Daniel Defoe

... At about the time that the great war terminated. I came to Europe and believed that at last I had found security. I lived for a time in London amidst a refreshing peace that was new to me. Then, chancing to hear of a property in Surrey which was available, I leased it for a period of years, installing—is it correct?—my cousin, Madame de Staemer, as housekeeper. ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer

... the stranger.—"As Rowland's whole crew perished in the tempest, and he only escaped by miracle, he fancied himself free from detection. And for twelve years he has been so; until his long security, well-nigh obliterating remembrance of the deed, has bred almost a sense of innocence within his breast. During this period Sir Montacute has been gathered to his fathers. His title has descended to Rowland: ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... this diseased disposition is matter of exultation to the philanthropist and philosopher, and of regret to the poet, the painter, and the statuary alone, and to them only as poets, painters, and statuaries;—namely, the security, the comparative equability, and ever increasing sameness of human life. Men are now so seldom thrown into wild circumstances, and violences of excitement, that the language of such states, the laws of association of feeling with thought, ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge


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