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Another word for surety

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Noun

  1. The fact or condition of being without doubt

    See also:

    certain

  2. An assumption of responsibility, as one given by a manufacturer, for the quality, worth, or durability of a product

      1. Something that assures a particular outcome or condition:
      2. A promise or assurance, especially one given in writing, that attests to the quality or durability of a product or service.
      3. A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly.
      1. A pledge committing a person to the payment of another's debt or the fulfillment of another's obligation in the event of default
      2. A guarantee to perform something in a specified way.
      3. A guarantee serving to assure a particular outcome or condition.
      1. Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof:
      2. An option issued by a company granting the holder the right to buy certain securities, generally common stock, at a specified price and usually for a limited time
      3. An option to buy stock at a specified price from an issuing company.
      1. The insured's guarantee that the facts are as stated in reference to an insurance risk or that specified conditions will be fulfilled to keep the contract effective.
      2. (Insurance law) A stipulation or engagement by a party insured, that certain things, relating to the subject of insurance, or affecting the risk, exist, or shall exist, or have been done, or shall be done. These warranties, when expressed, should appear in the policy; but there are certain implied warranties.
      3. (Law) A guarantee
    See also:

    obligation

  3. One who assumes financial responsibility for another

      1. A person who bets on a contestant
      2. A person who supports or gives help, as to a protégé or undertaking; patron; sponsor
      3. One that backs a person, group, or enterprise:
      1. A person who makes or gives a guaranty or guarantee
      2. A person, or company, that gives a guarantee.
      3. One, such as a person or corporation, that makes or gives a promise, assurance, or pledge typically relating to quality, durability, or performance.
      1. A guarantee serving to assure a particular outcome or condition.
      2. A guarantee to perform something in a specified way.
      3. Something given or held as security
      1. In some Christian denominations, a person who acts as patron for someone being confirmed
      2. A godfather or godmother; person who answers for a child, as at baptism, making the profession of faith and the promises prescribed
      3. A business firm or other agency that alone or with others pays the costs of a radio or television program on which it advertises or promotes something
      1. One that guarantees the purchase of a full issue of stocks or bonds.
      2. A person who underwrites issues of stocks, bonds, etc.
      3. A person who underwrites, or finances something
      1. A radar echo from something other than an aircraft, as from birds or rain
      2. A person regarded as being as beautiful, good, innocent, etc. as an angel
      3. A representation of such a being, especially in Christianity, conventionally in the image of a human figure with a halo and wings.
    See also:

    law

    support

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for surety

Noun
      1. Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.
      2. A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something:
      3. A person who has been accepted for membership in a fraternity or similar organization and has promised to join but has not yet been initiated.
      1. A hoop-shaped support for holding up the cloth of a canopy, etc.
      2. The person or persons giving bail
      3. Money, a bond, etc. deposited with the court to obtain the temporary release of an arrested person on the assurance that the person will obey the court's orders, as by appearing for trial
      1. Something that one loses or has to give up because of some crime, fault, or neglect of duty; specif., a fine or penalty
      2. A thing taken away as a penalty for making some mistake in a game, and redeemable by a specified action
      3. Something that is lost or given up on account of an offense, error, or failure to fulfill an agreement.
    See also:

    guaranty

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Sentence Examples

  • In 1748, however, the company broke up, and Lessing, who had allowed himself to become surety for some of the actors' debts, was obliged to leave Leipzig too, in order to escape their creditors.

  • Personal surety appears as a complement of and substitute for collective responsibility.

  • The payment of a debt is sometimes secured by one person, called a surety, who makes himself collaterally liable for the debt of the principal.

  • 975) says "and let every man so order that he have a borh (or surety), and let the borh then bring and hold him to every justice; and if any one then do wrong and run away, let the borh bear that which he ought to bear"; and a law of Canute about 1030 says "and that every one be brought into a hundred and in borh, and let the borh hold and lead him to every plea."

  • He built with surety on the colonial past, and had a better reasoned view of the actual future than had any of his contemporaries.

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