countersecure

verb

countersecure

verb

Etymology From counter- + secure.

1

To give additional security to or for.

  • February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory

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