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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
guarantor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
▪ Fifthly, the periodic meetings of Great Powers which together acted as self-appointed guarantors of international law and order.
▪ Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established.
▪ What followed looks like role-playing, with Roland Dumas acting the part of guarantor of Gaullist continuity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A guarantee of a minor's contractual obligation is also enforceable against the guarantor even if the infant's contractual obligation is unenforceable.
▪ Families are about love and trust; law is the guarantor of distrust.
▪ In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor.
▪ Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established.
▪ The guarantor of good government was the influence of public opinion.
▪ The original lessee was not merely a guarantor or surety.
▪ What followed looks like role-playing, with Roland Dumas acting the part of guarantor of Gaullist continuity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guarantor

Guarantor \Guar"an*tor`\, n. [See Guaranty, and cf. Warrantor.] (Law)

  1. One who makes or gives a guaranty; a warrantor; a surety.

  2. One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
guarantor

1853, from guarantee with Latinate agent noun suffix -or substituted for -ee.

Wiktionary
guarantor

n. A person, or company, that gives a guarantee.

WordNet
guarantor

n. one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another [syn: surety, warrantor, warranter]

Usage examples of "guarantor".

Nevertheless, he did not lose heart, and the next morning the public were informed by printed bills that the office would remain closed till a sufficient number of guarantors were found.

But he denies God even though He has served as his accomplice and guarantor up to now.

Geraldine and Joe, their backers, the guarantors who had invested in their company.

Tom, who wondered if his father had any idea at all of the years spent having to work night after long night in bars to make the fees for catering college, to borrow huge sums of money for the company, to ask people to be guarantors for the loan, to look at Marcella and know that she was the most beautiful person on earth, and surely someone with style and class would take her away from him.

The King of France, the Duke of Ferrara, and the republic of Florence were to be the guarantors of this treaty.

Then he dared you and me to come out there and actually be his witnesses and guarantors in the consummation of the very act which he knew we had been trying to prevent.

Nevertheless, he did not lose heart, and the next morning the public were informed by printed bills that the office would remain closed till a sufficient number of guarantors were found.

In the case of the lottery's losing, each guarantor would have to share in paying according to the sum named, and in like manner they would share in the profits.

To obtain her, he had to mend his ways, purchase an attorneyship in the Court of the Royal Council and find guarantors and sponsors in his small native town.

For rigid, semi-, and nonrigid dirigibles, for aeroflots and engines, the Jhour factories were the guarantors of quality.

Belgium was obligated, as well as her guarantors, to preserve her own neutrality and could make no overt act until one was made against her.

It was more than a guess, though, that a man who'd been provided with his own dispatch vessel was a member of the organization which reported directly to Guarantor Porra.

It was more than a guess, though, that a man whod been provided with his own dispatch vessel was a member of the organization which reported directly to Guarantor Porra.

Complete Bergeron paper: traffic violation dates, the names of her surety bond guarantors.