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Defense vs Surety - What's the difference?

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Defense is a related term of surety.


As nouns the difference between defense and surety

is that defense is defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose) while surety is certainty.

defense

English

Alternative forms

* defence (British)

Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
  • Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
  • # A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • # The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
  • An argument in support or justification of something.
  • Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
    • Department of Defense
  • Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • Severe defenses against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * offense

    Derived terms

    * antidefense * ecodefense * Nuremberg defense * defensive * defensiveness * defensive scheme * defensive system

    surety

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia surety)
  • certainty
  • * Bible, Genesis xv. 13
    • Know of a surety , that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • For the more surety they looked round about.
  • That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
  • * Milton
    • [We] our happy state / Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; / On other surety none.
  • (legal) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • There remains unpaid / A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which / One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
  • (legal) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
    • He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
  • A substitute; a hostage.
    • (Cowper)
  • Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • She called the saints to surety , / That she would never put it from her finger, / Unless she gave it to yourself.

    See also

    * surcharge * surcharged * indorsement