Definitions for security

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security se·cu·ri·ty

Spelling: [si-kyoo r-i-tee]

IPA: /sɪˈkyʊər ɪ ti/

Security is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in security (ceirstuy).

Definitions for security

noun

1. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
2. freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence.
3. something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense.
4. freedom from financial cares or from want:
5. precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, etc.:
6. a department or organization responsible for protection or safety:
7. protection or precautions taken against escape; custody:
8. an assurance; guarantee.
9. Law. something given or deposited as surety for the fulfillment of a promise or an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc. one who becomes surety for another.
10. an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond or a certificate of stock.
11. Usually, securities. stocks and bonds.
12. Archaic. overconfidence; cockiness.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or serving as security:

Origin of security

1400-50; late Middle English securytye, securite(e) Latin sēcūritās. See secure, -ity

Examples for security

Still, the security on the vessels—big or small—is nonexistent.

That his land may be fertile and he himself abide in security.

Faal has some experience in both political and security matters, it seems.

What security, that your rake will not follow you to the world's end?

Unwilling to be disturbed, I readily believed all that lulled me in my security.

In Evelyn's presence I feel a sense of peace, of security, of home!

We strive for peace and security, heartened by the changes all around us.

Pakistani security officials offer a more nuanced explanation.

security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.

A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.