sec
sec
1- (of wines) dry; not sweet.
Origin of sec
1sec
2Origin of sec
2SEC
or S.E.C.
- Securities and Exchange Commission: a board, consisting of five members, charged with regulating the public offer and sale of securities.
sec.
- second.
- secondary.
- secretary.
- section.
- sector.
- according to.
Origin of sec.
sec−1
- Symbol, Trigonometry. arc secant.
Related Words for sec
moment, second, point, flash, juncture, time, date, occasion, bit, minute, stage, hour, breath, wink, shake, crack, while, twinkling, jiffy, tickExamples from the Web for sec
Contemporary Examples of sec
But Bush has done exactly that, filing the papers for BH Global Aviation with the SEC right around Thanksgiving.
The FEC has held that social-welfare nonprofits like the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, which are organized under Sec.
The SEC disclosure filed last month is required once a firm has more than $100 million under management.
So did a jingle lawsuit from Dr Pepper and several additional suits from the SEC.
Pancakes and Pickaninnies: The Saga of ‘Sambo’s,’ The ‘Racist’ Restaurant Chain America Once LovedAndrew Romano
June 30, 2014
“We will be referring this matter to the Justice Department and the SEC,” Levin said.
Historical Examples of sec
Nor are we disposed to recede from our assertion made in Sec.
Modern Painters Volume I (of V)John Ruskin
"I'll have no sec worriment in my house," shouted the old man in a broken voice.
A Son of HagarSir Hall Caine
"It caps all—you niver heard sec feckless wark," she was saying.
A Son of HagarSir Hall Caine
Her house is in the Rue de l'Arbre Sec, two doors from the convent.
In Kings' BywaysStanley J. Weyman
Relief was asked for on the basis of the Revised Statutes, Sec.
sec
1- (of wines) dry
- (of champagne) of medium sweetness
Word Origin for sec
sec
2- informal short for second 2 wait a sec
sec
3- secant
SEC
- Securities and Exchange Commission
sec.
- second (of time)
- secondary
- secretary
- section
- sector
Word Origin and History for sec
1956, conversational shortening of second (n.).
of wine, "dry," French sec (10c.), from Latin siccus "dry" (also source of Italian secco); see siccative.
sec
- Abbreviation of secant