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Definition: SECURITIES |
SECURITIESPlural1. Of Security |
Date "SECURITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | The portfolio of all securities owned. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Certificates of title, issued by companies or public authorities, which by their characteristics are suitable for quotation on a stock exchange ; Shares, loans, bonds and debentures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SEA | English | Securities Exchange Act | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SECURITIESSynonyms: Bonds, Bonds (investment), Debentures, Stocks. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Credit | Letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance, securities. |
Mart | Noun: stock market, stock exchange, securities exchange; bourse, board; the big board, the New York Stock Exchange; the market, the open market; over-the-counter market; privately traded issues. |
Securities | Noun: securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond, convertable bond. |
Treasury | Sinking fund; stocks; public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities; Consols, credit mobilier; bonds. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | No securities, no stocks, no bonds. (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Philip Van Doren Stern; Frances Goodrich) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | The securities of many corporations with customer shareholders are listed --.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chase Bank, 11 Broad St., New York City. Trust department, securities cage.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | This stipulation shall not apply to any sale of securities effected by an enemy during the occupation in regions invaded or occupied by the enemy. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | China's securities market has developed in response to these continuing needs. (references) | |
The more securities a customer buys, the sooner the operator starts to provide services. (references) | ||
In November 2000, the value of traded securities in Egypt was valued at LE 2.442 billion. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | China | The Government confiscated the November 24 edition of the magazine Securities Market Weekly. (references) |
Economic History | Argentina | Law 17118 regulates public securities offerings. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan's securities market is not well developed. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Deficits are financed primarily through issuance of government securities. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Foreign ownership in securities underwriting companies is limited to 60 percent. (references) | |
RUSSIA | Investors also may invest restricted S-account rubles in certain securities and trade assets within a S-account. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | As members of the stock exchange in Zurich, they deal in securities. (references) |
Spain | The competitive securities market has a three-day settlement system. (references) | |
Haiti | There is no bond or securities market and no available equity financing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | In suits at common law, between man and man, the trial by jury, as one of the best securities to the rights of the people, ought to remain inviolate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SECURITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "SECURITIES" is used about 1,920 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.95% | 1,919 | 4,457 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,920 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Australian Technology Securities Limited | Hong Kong | Celestial Asia Securities Holdings Limited |
| Indonesia | Lippo Securities Tbk. Pt. | Japan | Asia Securities Printing Co., Ltd. |
| Singapore | Overseas Union Securities Limited | South Africa | Genbel Securities Limited |
| South Korea | Daewoo Securities Company Limited | Taiwan | Fubon Securities Co. Ltd. |
| Thailand | ABN Amro Asia Securities Public Company Limited | United Kingdom | British Empire Securities and General Trust Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "SECURITIES": bullet securities ♦ Committee of European Securities Regulators ♦ federal securities ♦ fixed income securities ♦ fixed interest securities ♦ government securities ♦ high yield securities ♦ holder of securities ♦ investment in securities ♦ issue of securities ♦ listed securities ♦ marketable securities ♦ National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation ♦ National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System ♦ negotiable securities ♦ paper securities ♦ pledged securities ♦ public securities ♦ quantity of securities booked ♦ quoted securities ♦ redemption of securities ♦ securities analyst ♦ Securities and Exchange Commission ♦ securities firm ♦ securities industry ♦ securities investor ♦ securities law ♦ securities market ♦ securities portfolio ♦ securities redeemable all at once ♦ securities redeemable by instalments ♦ securities redeemable in tranches ♦ securities redeemable simultaneously ♦ serial securities ♦ stock exchange securities ♦ stock market securities ♦ substituted securities ♦ tax on income from transferable securities ♦ transferable securities ♦ unlisted securities market ♦ warrant into government securities. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SECURITIES": securities-settlement, securities-trading. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "SECURITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | letra të çmuara, fonde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضمانات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ценни книжа (effects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 證券 (negotiable securities), 证券. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cenné papíry. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vaerdipapirportefølje (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), vaerdipapirer (financial assets, investments, marketable security, securities dealt with on a stock exchange, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), værdipapirer, beholdning af værdipapirer (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), børspapir (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waardepapieren, ter beurze verhandelbaare effect (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), roerende waardepapieren (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), effectenportefeuille (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), effecten (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), beurswaardepapieren (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), beurswaarden (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaihtokelpoinen arvopaperi (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), rahoitusomaisuusarvopaperi (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), osakesalkku (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), arvopaperisalkku (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | titres. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wertschriftenportefeuille (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), Wertschriftenertrag (earnings on securities, income from securities), Wertschriftenbestand (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), Wertschriften, Wertpapieren, Wertpapiere (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), Wertpapierbestand (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), Ertrag der Wertschriften (earnings on securities, income from securities), Effekten (effects, financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, stocks and bonds, transferable securities), Börsentitel (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), Börsenpapiere (financial assets, investments, listed stock, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), börsenfähiges Wertpapier (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρεόγραφα (financial assets, investment in securities, investments, marketable security, security, stock, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), αξιόγραφα (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ירות ערך (debentures, holdings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötvények, értékpapírok (effects, personal effects, selected investments). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | valori in portafoglio (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), valori di borsa (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), valori (item of value, object of value, valor, valour, valuable, valuables, worth), valore mobiliare (financial assets, investment in securities, investments, marketable security, security, stock, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), utile su titoli (earnings on securities, income from securities), titoli (security), reddito di titoli (earnings on securities, income from securities), reddito del portafoglio titoli (earnings on securities, income from securities), portafoglio titoli (investment in securities, investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security, security holding, stock), EFT L 375/1985 (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), composizione del portafoglio (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 証券 (bonds, certificates). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうけ" (bond, bonds, certificates, commercial rights, commercial supremacy, pure silk, security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 안 (safety, security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecuritiessay valores mobiliários, valor mobiliário (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities), títulos (scrip), carteira de títulos (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding). (various references) ценные бумаги. (various references) obveznice (debentures), hartije od vrednosti. (various references) títulos (investment in securities, security, stock). (various references) värdepappersportfölj (investment portfolio, portfolio, securities portfolio, security holding), värdepapper avsedda för den allmänna marknaden (financial assets, investments, marketable security, stock exchange securities, stock market securities, transferable securities). (various references) senetler, tahviller (bills, bonds, portfolio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SECURITIES": insecurities. (additional references) | |
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"SECURITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: secuirities, securitas, securite, securites, securitized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SECURITIES" (pronounced sikyuh"rutēz) |
| 8 | -k y uh" r u t ē z | insecurities. |
| 7 | -y uh" r u t ē z | impurities. |
| 6 | -uh" r u t ē z | maturities. |
| 5 | -r u t ē z | authorities, celebrities, charities, disparities, irregularities, majorities, minorities, parities, peculiarities, priorities, rarities, similarities, sororities, unfamiliarities, verities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, instabilities, intensities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, sensibilities, sensitivities, societies, technicalities, tonalities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cerusites, cerussite, curtesies, icteruses. | |
-2 letters: cerusite, citruses, curtsies, cutesier, eristics, eucrites, rictuses, securest, sureties. | |
-3 letters: cerises, cerites, ceruses, cresset, cruises, crusets, curites, cutesie, cutises, eristic, eucrite, icterus, ictuses, recites, recuses, reissue, rescues, resects, resites, rustics, secrets, secures, seisure, suiters, tierces. | |
-4 letters: cereus, cerise, cerite, certes, ceruse, cestus, cistus, citers, cities, citrus, crests, crises, crisis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: securitizes, supercities. | |
+2 letters: corequisites, insecurities, secularities. | |
+3 letters: discourtesies, perspicuities, resuscitative, specularities, subliteracies. | |
+4 letters: cruiserweights, diverticuloses, neuroscientist, vesicularities. | |
+5 letters: destructivities, instructiveness, neuroscientists, precipitousness, resurrectionist, superactivities, superinfections, superspecialist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 43 55 52 49 54 49 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. ..- .-. .. - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01000011 01010101 01010010 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E C U R I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0043 0055 0052 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53393755524354433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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