countersecure

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verb

To give additional security to or for.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbcountersecure (third-person singular simple present countersecures, present participle countersecuring, simple past and past participle countersecured)

present singular third person countersecures · participle present countersecuring · participle past countersecured · past countersecured

  1. transitiveTo give additional security to or for.
    1 more example

    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

Origin

From counter- + secure.

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APA

countersecure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countersecure

MLA

“countersecure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countersecure. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “countersecure,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countersecure.

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