guarantor

[gar-uhn-tawr, -ter]

noun

1. a person, group, system, etc., that guarantees.

2. a person who makes or gives a guarantee, guaranty, warrant, etc.

guarantor

/ ˌɡærənˈtɔː /

noun

1. a person who gives or is bound by a guarantee or guaranty; surety

Other Word Forms

• preguarantor noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of guarantor¹

First recorded in 1850–55; guarant(ee) + -or ²

Example Sentences

Israel must now assume a heightened level of security responsibility in Gaza, as a guarantor of peace, both for the Israelis and Gazans.

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In an effort to pull France out of its fiscal spiral, Macron is exhausting a battery of tools available to him under the constitution as guarantor of France’s modern Fifth Republic.

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In 2022, when Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Moldova's neighbour Ukraine, she made a decisive turn towards Europe as the only guarantor of her own country's security and its sovereignty.

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The leaders of the members of the regional grouping Igad - including Uganda - are supposed to be the guarantors of the 2018 deal.

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“You’re here as a security guarantor,” he said of the U.S.

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Related Words

• backer 
• underwriter