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[ uhn-si-kyoord ] / ˌʌn sɪˈkyʊərd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR unsecured ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot secured, especially not insured against loss, as by a bond or pledge: an unsecured loan. not made secure, as a door or lock of hair; unfastened. not protected against tapping or interception, as a telephone line or radio communication. Origin of unsecuredFirst recorded in 1770–80; un-1 + secure + -ed2 Words nearby unsecuredunseasonable, unseasonal, unseasoned, unseat, unseaworthy, unsecured, unsecured loan, unseduced, unseeded, unseeing, unseelie Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for unsecuredThe report that a bank had given an unsecured loan to a superPAC turned out to be based on flawed FEC reporting. Bank Didn't Give Unsecured Loan To Super PAC|Ben Jacobs|May 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST So we're mostly talking about unsecured debts, mostly medical, auto balance, and credit card, which have gone to collections. Ask the Blogger|Megan McArdle|December 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST So it was the shareholders and $70 or $80 billion of unsecured creditors that lost their shirt. The End Is Near!|Jeffrey Leeds|March 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST Any considerable amount of unsecured and past due paper indicates lax methods in the debtor's own credit department. Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 1|Various
He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unsecured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary. Character Writings of the 17th Century|Various Despite the fact that these advances are unsecured by mortgage, the banks suffer very little loss on farm paper. Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips The usual method of granting credit to them is to advance loans on one and two name paper, unsecured. The Value of Money|Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr. If you prefer, you may regard this amount as an unsecured loan and repay it with current interest on opportunity. Lorimer of the Northwest|Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for unsecured
adjectivefinance - (of a loan, etc) secured only against general assets and not against a specific asset
- (of a creditor) having no security against a specific asset and with a claim inferior to those of secure creditors
not made secure; loose Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to unsecuredrelaxed, sloppy, lax, easy, baggy, detached, limp, hanging, escaped, floating, unlocked, separate, untied, disconnected, free, released, unhinged, slack, clear, undone |