Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

4 Finance; Stock Exchange) securities [pi.] a financial asset such as a share or bond; the certificate that shows you own this: to buy high- yield securities о Merrill Lynch is one of the world's biggest securities firms, о the change from paper to electronic securities

О to buy/hold/sell securities ♦ to deal in/issue securities ♦ a securities business/company/dealer/ firm/house

5 (Finance; Law) [u,C] a valuable item that you agree to give to sb if you are unable to payback the money that you have borrowed from them: His home and business are being held as security for the loan, о Shares in the company were pledged as security against the loan. -» collateral

to give/offer/pledge sth as security

se curityde,positnoun [c](Commerce) a first amount of money that a seller asks a buyer to give them in case the buyer does not complete the business

se'curity guardnoun [c] a person whose job is to guard money, valuables, a building, etc: He had a job as a night security guard.

se.curity of em'ployment = employment security

se'curity .ratingnoun [c, usuallv sing.]

[Finance) a measurement of the risk involved in investing in a particular company: The securities are triple-A rated, the highest form of security rating.

credit rating

(IT) a measurement of how well a computer or computer sy stem protects data from being read or

1 a part or division of sth such as an economy, a market, a social group, a company's work, etc: Small businesses are the fastest-growing segment of the economy, о All six of our business segments grew this year, о The company have launched two new cars into the lower-priced segment of the market, о All segments of society should have access to the benefits of the Internet.

the business/industrial/retail/services/technology segment ♦ the energy/food/health-care/insurance segment ♦ core/key/profitable/target segments ♦ the low-priced/luxury/mid-priced segment

2 a part or section of sth such as a chart: The blue segment of the pie chart represents foreign sales.

verb /seg'ment/ [+ obj or no obj] (often be segmented)

to divide sth into different parts; to divide into different parts: Customers are segmented into 4 basic groups, о Market researchers often segment the population on the basis of age and social class, о Our business is segmenting into three key areas.

segmentation /.segmen'teijn/ noun [U,C] the act of dividing sth into different parts; one of these parts: Managers see segmentation as a tool to help marketing, о the segmentation of work market segmentation

seigniorage (also spelled seignorage)

/'seinj8rid3/noun [u]

СEconomics) the profit that is made by a government from issuing banknotes, coins, etc.

seize /si:z/ verb [+ obj]

to take goods away from sb officially or legally: The bank has the right to seize your assets if you fail

1 the act of giving sb sth in exchange for money: steady selling of shares о A wave of panic selling drove the FTSE 100 index to its lowest level for five years, о The holiday selling season proved disappointing.