secure

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   safe and protected from danger or harm

   Make sure the building is secure at night.

2. 2
   adj

   firmly fixed and not likely to come loose or fail

   Check that the ladder is secure before you climb it.

3. 3
   adj

   feeling safe, confident, and free from worry

   A good job made her feel financially secure.

4. 4
   verb

   to succeed in getting or achieving something

   The team worked hard to secure the contract.

5. 5
   verb

   to make something safe or firmly fixed

   They secured the doors before the storm.

Common collocations

• secure a win Verb + noun
• emotionally secure Adverb + adjective

Borrowed from Latin sēcūrus (“of persons, free from care, quiet, easy; in a bad sense, careless, reckless; of things, tranquil, also free from danger, safe, secure”), from sē- (“without”) + cūra (“care”); see cure. Doublet of sure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).

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