secured

an early goal secured victory.

the division secured a major contract.

a loan secured on your home.

a loan secured by mortgage

They secured the suspect in the squad car.

secured release of the hostages.

workers secured by the chains of the labour market.

doors are likely to be well secured at night.

the top is secured by snap-lock buckles.

She has secured a good job.

Grant's Vicksburg campaign secured the entire Mississippi for the Union.

He secured the doors and windows.

He secured the appointment of professor of English literature in the university.

We have secured a first class cook.

anything walks if it is not properly secured and locked.

Diplomacy secured the cooperation that confrontation had failed to elicit.

By strengthening the embankments they secured the village from floods.

Beth had secured his promise that he would neverprobe into her past.

By strengthening the river banks, the city secured itself against flood.