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Meanings of surety in English

Catalan
garant
Spanish
garante

One who provides a warrant or guarantee to another.

        garant
        Russian
        поручительство
        Spanish
        garantía personal

        Mandatory one-sided contract, is used in the banking sector.

              поручительство
              Portuguese
              segurança
              Spanish
              fianza
              Catalan
              seguretat

              Property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation.

                    segurança
                    Portuguese
                    refém
                    Catalan
                    ostatge

                    A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.

                          refém
                          Usage of surety in English
                          1
                          There was no surety in the thought; Margrit had not been threatened.
                          Heart of stone
                          2
                          Mog-ur knew that now with a surety he could no longer deny.
                          The Clan of the Cave Bear
                          3
                          She controlled the faintest of smiles at the surety of his analysis.
                          Ronicky Doone
                          4
                          The calm, shallow sea conveyed the sounds with marvellous fidelity and surety.
                          My Tropic Isle
                          5
                          Of a surety, this is the maddest caprice the Hathors ever wrought.
                          The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
                          6
                          The contract concludes with a guarantee and surety given by Jacopo Gallo.
                          The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
                          7
                          No surety for the payment of money for gambling purposes was bound.
                          The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)
                          8
                          I hold it for a surety of a proper sweetness of blood.
                          The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
                          9
                          When they received his commandment they sought him with the more surety.
                          Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
                          10
                          I grew up in this court as surety of my father's loyalty.
                          King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
                          11
                          And that graduates and beneficed men find surety for their good behaviour.
                          The Customs of Old England
                          12
                          Weigh the matter betimes, for of a surety he will win thee.
                          The Fall of the Nibelungs
                          13
                          Even as that surety came to him he tripped and fell .
                          To the blight: the eye of the world
                          14
                          A friend of his wife's was his surety; such things often happen.
                          The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
                          15
                          After his imprisonment, he shall find a surety or leave the nation.
                          Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
                          16
                          We know for a surety that you are quite sound and well.
                          Cliges: A Romance
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                          United Kingdom
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                          United States of America
                          Less common