–noun

1.	freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.

2.	freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence.

3.	something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense.

4.	freedom from financial cares or from want: The insurance policy gave the family security.

5.	precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, etc.: The senator claimed security was lax and potential enemies know our plans.

6.	a department or organization responsible for protection or safety: He called security when he spotted the intruder.

7.	protection or precautions taken against escape; custody: The dangerous criminal was placed under maximum security.

8.	an assurance; guarantee.

9.	Law. a. something given or deposited as surety for the fulfillment of a promise or an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc. b. one who becomes surety for another.

10.	an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond or a certificate of stock.

11.	Usually, securities. stocks and bonds.

12.	Archaic. overconfidence; cockiness.

–adjective

13.	of, pertaining to, or serving as security: The company has instituted stricter security measures.

–noun

1.	a boxlike device for holding a film or plate sensitive to light, having an aperture controlled by a shutter that, when opened, admits light enabling an object to be focused, usually by means of a lens, on the film or plate, thereby producing a photographic image.

2.	(in a television transmitting apparatus) the device in which the picture to be televised is formed before it is changed into electric impulses.

3.	a judge's private office.

–adjective

4.	Printing. camera-ready.

—Idioms

5.	in camera, a. Law. in the privacy of a judge's chambers. b. privately.

6.	off camera, out of the range of a television or motion-picture camera.

7.	on camera, being filmed or televised by a live camera: Be sure to look alert when you are on camera.