guarantor
/ˌɡar(ə)nˈtɔː
/noun
1A person or thing that gives or acts as a guarantee: the role of the police as guarantors of public order...
- His veterans were settled on confiscated land (especially in Campania and Etruria) as guarantors of his order.
- The presentation of virtue or triumph rivaled rank in importance, for the great were also the guarantors of right order.
- They still dreamed of a decentralized provincial order in which the privileges of the ancient estates would be cocooned, but now the monarchy was seen not as the enemy of that order but as its guarantor.
1.1 Law A person or organization that provides a guaranty.The second defendants are sued as guarantors of the cargo's proportion of general average, but the proceedings have not been served on them....
- There was initially a view put by the respondents who were guarantors of the tenant's obligations that indeed a new lease came into existence as a result of those negotiations.
- The third party claim amounts to the guarantors asserting a claim and that is not permissible.
Synonyms
warrantor, guarantee, underwriter, voucher, sponsor, supporter, backer;
Law bondsman
Rhymes
- who am I (or are you, is he, etc.) to do something
- who'd
- who'da
- whoda
- whodunit
- whodunnit
- whoe'er
- whoever
- who goes there?
- whole
- whole blood
- whole body scan
- whole body scanning
- whole-brain
- whole-bred
- whole-cannon
- whole-cell
- whole cloth
- whole-color
- whole-colored
- whole-colour
- whole-coloured
- wholecrop
- whole culverin
- whole-eared