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Unsecured   /ˌənsɪkjˈʊrd/  /ˌənsikjˈʊrd/   Listen
Unsecured

adjective
1.
Not firmly fastened or secured.  Synonyms: unbarred, unbolted, unlatched, unlocked.  "Went through the unlatched gate into the street" , "An unlocked room"
2.
Without financial security.  Synonym: unguaranteed.



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"Unsecured" Quotes from Famous Books



... individual effort. Later on, too, many natives seemed to think that the foreign firms, and others employing large capital, might well become philanthropic institutions, paternally assisting them with unsecured capital. The natives were bred in this moral bondage: they had seen trading companies, established under royal sanction, benefit the few and collapse; they had witnessed extensive works, undertaken por via de administracion miscarry in their ostensible objects but prosper in their ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

... that has much learning in the ore, unwrought and untried, which time and experience fashions and refines. He is good metal in the inside, though rough and unsecured without, and therefore hated of the courtier, that is quite contrary. The time has got a vein of making him ridiculous, and men laugh at him by tradition, and no unlucky absurdity but is put upon his profession, and done like a scholar. ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... of the contract, it is to be borne in mind that when the banker issuing the credit hands over the bill of lading to the importer on trust receipt, he is allowing the only security he has to pass out of his hands, and is putting himself in the position of having made an unsecured loan to the importer. ...
— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher

... ascertained that the fears of the bridegroom, who had got safely away, were only too well founded. In the affairs of Herr Brazovics there figured so many investments apparently sound but really unprofitable, such false calculations, unsecured debts, and imaginary securities, that when order was brought into this chaos, the whole property did not suffice to satisfy the creditors. Besides, it came to light that he had used moneys intrusted to his honor: orphans' capital, church endowments, hospital funds, ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai

... in one of the heavy rolls; two of their three boats had disappeared, washed away in bad weather, and the davits swung to and fro, unsecured, with chafed rope's ends waggling to the roll. Nothing was done on board, and Falk told me how he had often listened to the water washing about the dark engine-room where the engines, stilled for ever, were decaying slowly into a ...
— Falk • Joseph Conrad



Words linked to "Unsecured" :   unsafe, insecure, unfastened



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