• (RP) IPA: /səˈkjʊə(ɹ)/, /səˈkjɔː(ɹ)/
• (GA) IPA: /səˈkjʊɹ/, /səˈkjɝ/, /səˈkjɔɹ/

secure (comparative securer, superlative securest)

1. Free from attack or danger; protected.
2. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
3. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
4. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.

   • But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.

5. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
6. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
7. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.

   secure of a welcome

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.

8. (obsolete) Overconfident; incautious; careless.

• insecure

• security

• French: sûr
• German: sicher, geschützt, beschützt
• Portuguese: seguro, a salvo
• Spanish: seguro, resguardado

• French: sûr
• German: sicher, geschützt
• Portuguese: seguro
• Spanish: seguro

• French: sûr
• German: sicher
• Spanish: seguro, confiable

• French: sûr
• German: sicher
• Portuguese: seguro
• Spanish: seguro, aplomado

• French: sûr
• German: zuverlässig
• Portuguese: seguro
• Russian: надёжный
• Spanish: seguro, aplomado

• French: sûr
• German: sicher, zuverlässig
• Portuguese: seguro
• Spanish: seguro, confiable

secure (secures, present participle securing; past and past participle secured)

1. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

   • I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.

2. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.

   to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage

   • It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.

3. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.

   to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship

4. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

   to secure an estate

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real ↗", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To plight or pledge.

• German: sichern, absichern
• Portuguese: assegurar