Security Definition–noun | 1. | freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. |
| 2. | freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence. |
| 3. | something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense. |
| 4. | freedom from financial cares or from want: The insurance policy gave the family security. |
| 5. | precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, etc.: The senator claimed security was lax and potential enemies know our plans. |
| 6. | a department or organization responsible for protection or safety: He called security when he spotted the intruder. |
| 7. | protection or precautions taken against escape; custody: The dangerous criminal was placed under maximum security. |
| 8. | an assurance; guarantee. |
| 9. | Law. | a. | something given or deposited as surety for the fulfillment of a promise or an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc. |
| b. | one who becomes surety for another. |
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| 10. | an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond or a certificate of stock. |
| 11. | Usually, securities. stocks and bonds. |
| 12. | Archaic. overconfidence; cockiness. |
–adjective | 13. | of, pertaining to, or serving as security: The company has instituted stricter security measures. |
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Camera Definition–noun | 1. | a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image. |
| 2. | (in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses. |
| 3. | a judge's private office. |
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—Idioms| 5. | in camera, | a. | Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. |
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| 6. | off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera. |
| 7. | on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera. |
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