🔐 To fasten firmly 🏆 To get or achieve 🔒 Safe from harm 😊 Confident or calm 🤲 Firmly fixed 📄 To guarantee payment 💰 Safe financially

to secure

62 5.3

To make a loan safe by using property to pay if needed

verb
/sɪˈkjʊr/

Specialized

: garantizar

To ensure the payment, he needed to secure the investment with personal guarantees.
secured creditor
secured claim
secure a guarantee

It depends on cast, it depends on how much collateral was secured in advance.

Examples

She worked hard to secure the funds necessary to complete the project on time.
A director might then take action to secure additional credit lines to forestall a potential default.

Academic text (2011)
Loans aren't secured by real estate or anything else down there.

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Grants for operating the summer and the pre-med programs, all secured by Carmichael, total $4 million.

Academic text (1991)
Left-behind parents also incur significant financial expenses trying to locate and secure the return of their abducted children.

Academic text (2017)
The company secured a loan by offering their property as collateral for the bank.

Synonyms

to securitize

vsto secure

Specialized

8.6

To protect a loan by using property that the lender can take if you do not pay

guarantees payment generally rather than only by pledging assets

Antonyms

to default

Specialized

55 6.7

Fail to pay money you owe on a loan

Idioms

as secure as Fort Knox

Informal

7.3

Very safe and hard for anyone to break into or steal from

How Secure

to secure

Specialized

62 5.3

to collateralize

Formal

3 9.3

Surface Forms

secure infinitive

secured past

secured past participle

securing present participle

secures third person singular

Etymology

The verb secure comes from the Latin parts se- 'without' and cura 'care', meaning 'to make safe'. So, to secure a loan with your house is to make sure the lender will be paid by using your house as safety.