Countersecure
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To give additional security to or for. transitive
"February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory"
Example
More examples"February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory"
Etymology
From counter- + secure.
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