0 protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats such as crime or attacks by foreign countries: --
You'll need to notify security if you want to work late in the office.
The most dangerous criminals are held in maximum-security prisons (= prisons that are as difficult as possible to escape from).
The students were deported because they posed a threat to national security.
The tighter security measures/precautions include video cameras throughout the city centre.
30 demonstrators were killed in clashes with the security forces over the weekend.
The station was closed for two hours because of a security alert.
1 the fact that something is not likely to fail or be lost: --
2 property or goods that you promise to give to someone if you cannot pay what you owe them: --
3 the feeling of being confident in one's family and relationships: --
4 freedom from risk and the threat of change for the worse : --
By the early 1980s, cross-border flows of capital had reached enormous volumes, and issuance and trading of securities on international markets burgeoned.
The existence (and the creation) of multiple agents as in the cases of energy and securities tends to increase the control capacity of the principal.
Central banks joined the fray, liquidating their foreign securities to avoid capital losses in the event of a foreign devaluation.
There also may be other securities with payoffs contingent on public information.
A weak financial system-reflecting an underperforming banking system, poor investment protection and corporate governance, or fragile securities markets-yields a high cost of financial intermediation.
The uncertainties and anxieties that accompany this fast pace of change leaves them hankering after the imagined certitudes and securities of a more 'stable' past.
Section 4 considers the special case in which the securities market is complete.
However, under this preference, an investor's holding of risky securities is independent of his wealth, as are the equilibrium prices.