(a.) Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
(a.) Not effectually guarded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(2) Foreign investment has been sluggish because of insecurity, red tape and corruption.
(3) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(4) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(5) Trade unions have sought to highlight the insecurity of workers who have been forced into self-employment in the tough jobs market of recent years.
(6) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(7) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(8) She says that the spread of insecure, short-term contracts and part-time work, together with benefits cuts and paltry wage growth, have meant that many people in work are struggling to make ends meet.
(9) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.
(10) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
(11) The very complex postburn situation explains why there are so many different shock-preventing fluid therapy programmes and such crude and insecure monitoring of the therapy.
(12) Insecurity has led to panic buying of fuel, with long, chaotic queues at petrol stations.
(13) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(14) Politicians here always say they will act on immigration, yet they never do.” Florence Faucher, professor of political science at Paris’s Sciences Po University, said there were parallels between Front National voters in France and those who backed Ukip in the UK, particularly the sense of those who felt “left behind”, who hadn’t benefited from globalisation, feared the insecurity in the job market and worried about their future.
(15) The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn’s conference speech: he won a hearing not the argument | Editorial Read more The insecurity of many tenancies and the increased number of families moved out of their local areas, away from family and support networks, because of housing shortages and welfare cuts, was pinpointed as a key problem.
(16) When the human figure drawings were used as a projective tool, four personality traits of some of the children were identified: physical inadequacy, immaturity, body anxiety, and insecurity.
(17) Other research shows children from food-insecure families are 30% more likely to have been hospitalized for a range of illnesses.
(18) The children see education as crucial to improving their lives and in most cases the only way to escape poverty and insecurity.
(19) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(20) Many people have been pushed into self-employment because they cannot find a suitable alternative job, the TUC said, raising concerns that insecure self-employment, agency work and zero-hours contracts are becoming a permanent feature of the jobs market even as the economy recovers.
Unsecure
Definition:
(a.) Insecure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
(2) Instead, those who ordered through the company will be treated as unsecured creditors.
(3) Sainsbury’s Bank has become the first provider to offer new and existing customers a personal unsecured loan of £35,000.
(4) The Bank's own figures also showed that consumers paid back unsecured borrowing for the third month running, adding to fears that the banking system needs another cash boost.
(5) Total net lending, which includes mortgages and unsecured borrowing through loans, credit cards and other consumer credit rose by £1.3bn in April, almost double the previous month's increase of £0.7bn.
(6) Therefore we are seeing an increasing number of people entering retirement with unsecured and secured borrowing.
(7) In terms of unsecured lending, the BBA said new spending on credit cards of £7.1bn was above the recent six-month average, but was more than offset by repayments for a net repayment of £237m in January, up from £67m in December.
(8) The fires had died down and they gingerly explored, finding the unsecured window into the safe room.
(9) UKAR still owes taxpayers £42.1bn, which it is repaying as customers pay back their mortgages, although it raised a further £400m by selling its unsecured personal loans to OneSavings Bank and Marlin Financial last month.
(10) As an unsecured lender it is liable for this type of fraud – our defrauded customers have chargeback rights for any losses they face."
(11) Wonga claims, you state, that "it helps if you have a good track record of taking out unsecured loans and repaying them on time", and that APRs distort the true cost of a loan.
(12) The pri-globulins went up slightly prior to parturition, but that rise remained statistically unsecured.
(13) The Bank's figures showed an increase in the amount of unsecured debt consumers took on during February, with this rising by £528m.
(14) Financial engineering via fashionable "pre-pack" selloffs, which cut out unsecured creditors, are starting to attract criticism.
(15) It has been published as administrators warned that unsecured creditors to BHS, including landlords and suppliers, were likely to receive less than 3p for every £1 owed.
(16) Unsecured creditors will, however, get nothing from the administration process.
(17) Changes in reporting practices also had an impact on the BBA's figures for unsecured consumer credit, resulting in credit card growth shifting down by 2% and growth in personal loans and overdrafts rising by 0.5%.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest How the Westminster terror attack unfolded Video footage released after the attack showed how MPs remained unsecured and a motorcycle courier riding through the gates unchallenged as emergency services battled to save the life of PC Keith Palmer.
(19) Patients with unsecured aneurysms remote from an ischemic middle cerebral territory should probably be revascularized if cautious hypertension fails to improve their conditions.
(20) A child who has sustained a firearm injury is more likely to know the perpetrator, be killed in the home by a readily available unsecured firearm, and die from severe head injury.