(securities industry) The lending of securities by one brokerage to another, typically for a secondary purpose such as to cover a stock short position. Not to be confused with collateral-type stock loans.

plural of convertible security

Alternative form of selfsecure

(software engineering, of software) designed from the ground up to be secure

(military) To guard the firearms from becoming wet.

plural of restricted security

(finance, business) A loan in which the borrower pledges some asset as collateral for the loan, which then becomes a secured debt owed to the creditor who issues the loan.

plural of secured loan

(Canada) Communications Security Establishment.

An intergovernmental military alliance of several post-Soviet countries.