Dictionary entry
Security
Pronunciation: /sɪˈkjʊərɪti/
Pronunciation
/sɪˈkjʊərɪti/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) လုံခြုံမှု
Definition
security /sÇ'kjƱǝrǝti/ n ၁။ [U] လံုၿခံဳမႈ။ အာမခံခ်က္။ children who lack the security of a good home ❍ have the security of a guaranteed pension. See also social security ၂။ [U] လံုၿခံဳေရး။ လံုၿခံဳေရးကိစၥ။ a security guard/officer ❍ national security (ie the defence of a country) ❍ security forces (eg police or troops) ❍ a security van (eg for transporting money) ❍ a high security prison (ie for dangerous criminals) ❍ There was tight security for the Pope's visit (eg Many police officers guarded him). ၃။ [C, U] အာမခံ (ေငြ၊ ပစၥည္းစသည္)။ ခံဝန္ခ်ဳပ္။ lend money on security (ie in return for sth given as security) ❍ give sth as (a) security. Compare guarantee ၁ ၄။ [C often pl ] အစုရွယ္ယာလက္မွတ္။ government securities (ie for money lent to a government). ❏ the Security Council n [sing] ကုလသမဂၢလံုၿခံဳေရး ေကာင္စီ။ ❏ security risk n လံုၿခံဳေရးစိတ္မခ်ရသူ။ ႏႈတ္မလံုသူ။ She's a poor/good security risk.
Examples
- Every precaution has been taken to ensure the personal security of the delegates.
- [internal security] : The information received is highly confidential and relates to internal security.
- [security] : The meeting took place amid extremely tight security.
- Security measures/arrangements/operations
- The Prime Minister’s security advisers
- If you won’t leave
- I’ll have to call security.
- It gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to.
- [a sense/feeling of security] : A predictable routine gives children a sense of security.
- [financial/job security] : She was concerned about her financial security.
- Additional security for any loan may be required by the bank.