Usually means: Guarantee of performance by another.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. surety: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surety: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surety: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surety, surety: Wordnik
  7. surety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surety: Wiktionary
  9. surety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surety: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surety: Dictionary.com
  13. surety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Surety (Canadian criminal law), Surety: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Surety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. surety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. surety: Rhymezone
  18. Surety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. surety: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Surety: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. surety: Free Dictionary
  22. surety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surety: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. surety: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. surety: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Surety: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Surety: Investopedia
  13. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  14. surety: Legal dictionary
  15. surety: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surety: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surety: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SURETY, SURETY, SURETY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surety: Easton Bible

(Note: See sureties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Certainty.
noun:  That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
noun:  (law) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
noun:  (law) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
noun:  A substitute; a hostage.
noun:  Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

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