security measures

1. 1.

   measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.

   “military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising”

   Synonymssecurity

   Broaderprecaution

Questions about security measures

What does security measures mean?

security measures means "measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.".

What is another word for security measures?

Close synonyms include security. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is security measures a common word?

security measures 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.