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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsecured
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
creditor
▪ Secondly, even if loan stock is unsecured it will rank equally with the other unsecured creditors.
▪ Whole Earth owes its Top 20 unsecured creditors more than $ 2. 6 million.
▪ Subordinated loan stock will rank behind all unsecured creditors but ahead of preference shareholders and ordinary shareholders.
▪ Unfortunately, the company's bank, the tax man and employees come first; you will then be an unsecured creditor.
▪ So long as the receiver is in the driving seat neither the owners nor the unsecured creditors can do much to remove him.
▪ Second, the charge provides security against unsecured creditors.
debt
▪ A few years ago there were huge unsecured debts ... around of thirty thousand pounds.
loan
▪ There is a wide range of accident, sickness and unemployment packages available from lenders, covering both secured and unsecured loans.
▪ For Vestel, of course, those unsecured loans are a saving grace, preserving its assets from hungry creditors.
▪ It was an unsecured loan ... now they want him to secure it against the house.
▪ A lower interest rate, in fact, than for unsecured loans.
▪ They are an unsecured loan, generally to a borrower with a low credit rating.
▪ Trade credit is an unsecured loan given to some one so they can use it to buy your goods and services.
▪ Recovering it afterwards can also be similar to collecting an unsecured loan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An unsecured Car Loan lets you borrow between £500 and £7,500 - quickly and without fuss.
▪ Loans are unsecured and there is no lender of last resort.
▪ Secondly, even if loan stock is unsecured it will rank equally with the other unsecured creditors.
▪ The offeror will have a choice of issuing secured, unsecured or subordinated loan stock.
▪ The overnight unsecured call rate -- what banks charge each other for overnight loans -- traded at 0. 46 percent.
▪ While we may request security for your loan, it can be unsecured.
▪ You can borrow between £500 and £7,500 with an unsecured Personal Loan and arrange all the details quickly and conveniently.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsecured

1780, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of secure (v.).

Wiktionary
unsecured

a. 1 Not secured; not fastened; not attached. 2 Of a loan or guarantee, without collateral.

WordNet
unsecured
  1. adj. not firmly fastened or secured; "an unbarred door"; "went through the unlatched gate into the street"; "an unlocked room" [syn: unbarred, unbolted, unlatched, unlocked]

  2. without financial security; "an unsecured note" [syn: unguaranteed]

Usage examples of "unsecured".

Lance was somewhere repairing damages and cleaning up, where unsecured items had smashed into walls, or unbraced chairs made wreckage of themselves.

Everything to the west of us was completely unsecured when we broke off all engagements, and I would not vouch for Hardornen land to the south and north of our original wedge.

My operatives in unsecured areas tell me that the Hardornens are just as demoralized as our men.

Quinn never relayed sensitive information over an unsecured telephone.

When the mate was convinced it could be knotted no better, the unsecured end was heaved over the bow.

Entering the unsecured module, he found himself surrounded by items that identified it as hers.

With her weapon in her right hand, Eve eased the unsecured door open with her left.

A rough and shaky bridge, made of the outsides of pines laid upon some unsecured logs, crossed the river.

Iolcus and Colchis, where, as Argeus and Phrontis repeatedly confirmed, the Golden Fleece hung unsecured in its tree, just waiting for someone daring enough to lift it from the branches and carry it away.

Some spammers hack into unsecured servers - mainly in China and Korea - to relay their missives anonymously.

Cascades of unsecured objects came bouncing past, everything from flashlights to clothes to frozen foods—.

The area was unguarded and unsecured, and military and civilian personnel passed by it constantly without being stopped or challenged by anyone-there was no reason to suspect it was anything else but a garbage dump.

I checked the house every night before going to bed and not once did he leave any door unsecured.

We're going into an unsecured zone where people are shooting at each otherpossibly three different sets of people all shooting at each otherand if you can think of a better definition of combat, tell me when we're safely back in our hot tubs.

Several unsecured objects went ricocheting around the inside of the floater like pinballs, and one of them, a solid plastic navigational cube, struck Ake's forehead a glancing blow.