security interest

1. 1.

   any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation

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Questions about security interest

What does security interest mean?

security interest means "any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation".

Is security interest a common word?

security interest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.