security
NOUN:
1. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
2. freedom from fear, care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence.
3. a person or thing that secures, guarantees, or makes safe; protection; defense.
4. freedom from financial cares or from want:
The insurance policy gave the family security.
5. assured freedom from poverty or want:
he needs the security of a permanent job.
6. protection, precautions or measures taken to guard or ensure against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, escape, theft, etc.; custody:
claims that security was lax at the embassy; the importance of computer security to prevent hackers from gaining access; The dangerous criminal was placed under maximum security; the security in the government offices was not very good.
7. freedom from the prospect of being laid off:
job security.
8. a department or organization responsible for protection or safety, or whose task is security:
He called security when he spotted the intruder.
9. an assurance; guarantee.
10. the quality or state of being secure.
11. surety.
Examples:
We must insure our national security. // The college failed to provide adequate security on campus after dark. —Merriam-Webster.
in law:
1. something given or deposited as surety for the fulfillment of a promise or an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.
2. one who becomes surety for another.
of an obligation:
1. the specific asset that a creditor can claim title to in the event of default on an obligation.
2. something given or pledged to secure the fulfillment of a promise or obligation.
3. a person who undertakes to fulfill another person's obligation.
4. something given, deposited, or pledged to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation.
of computers:
the protection of data to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to computer files.
of stocks:
1. an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond or a certificate of stock.
2. an instrument of investment in the form of a document (such as a stock certificate or bond) providing evidence of its ownership.
archaic:
overconfidence, cockiness, or carelessness.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English securytye, securite(e) < Latin sēcūritās. See secure, -ity. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use of security: 15th century. —Merriam-Webster.
See secure.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 17 August 2020 {8:28 AM}
1. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
2. freedom from fear, care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence.
3. a person or thing that secures, guarantees, or makes safe; protection; defense.
4. freedom from financial cares or from want:
The insurance policy gave the family security.
5. assured freedom from poverty or want:
he needs the security of a permanent job.
6. protection, precautions or measures taken to guard or ensure against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, escape, theft, etc.; custody:
claims that security was lax at the embassy; the importance of computer security to prevent hackers from gaining access; The dangerous criminal was placed under maximum security; the security in the government offices was not very good.
7. freedom from the prospect of being laid off:
job security.
8. a department or organization responsible for protection or safety, or whose task is security:
He called security when he spotted the intruder.
9. an assurance; guarantee.
10. the quality or state of being secure.
11. surety.
Examples:
We must insure our national security. // The college failed to provide adequate security on campus after dark. —Merriam-Webster.
in law:
1. something given or deposited as surety for the fulfillment of a promise or an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.
2. one who becomes surety for another.
of an obligation:
1. the specific asset that a creditor can claim title to in the event of default on an obligation.
2. something given or pledged to secure the fulfillment of a promise or obligation.
3. a person who undertakes to fulfill another person's obligation.
4. something given, deposited, or pledged to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation.
of computers:
the protection of data to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to computer files.
of stocks:
1. an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond or a certificate of stock.
2. an instrument of investment in the form of a document (such as a stock certificate or bond) providing evidence of its ownership.
archaic:
overconfidence, cockiness, or carelessness.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English securytye, securite(e) < Latin sēcūritās. See secure, -ity. —Dictionary.com. // First Known Use of security: 15th century. —Merriam-Webster.
See secure.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 17 August 2020 {8:28 AM}