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securitise

securitise is the alternative spelling of securitize.

Meaning of securitize

Verb

securitize (third-person singular simple present securitizes, present participle securitizing, simple past and past participle securitized)

  1. To convert assets or claims (typically outstanding loans or other receivables) to securities, usually by selling them with a discount to a financial intermediary, which pools them with other similar assets and sells further as securities to third-party investors.
    • Once the private sector had discovered securitization, it securitized any claim imaginable, from residential mortgages to receivables for products and services from cars to credit cards and student loans; the original policy goal of lowering the costs of credit for homeowners gave away to minting...2020, Katharina Pistor, “4: Minting Debt”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN

Forms of securitise

third-person singular presentsecuritises
present participlesecuritising
past participlesecuritised
pastsecuritised

Questions about securitise

What is securitise the alternative spelling of?
Securitise is the alternative spelling of securitize.

Words near securitise in the dictionary

  1. securities lending
  2. securities market
  3. securities markets
  4. securitisation
  5. securitisations
  6. securitise
  7. securitised
  8. securitiser
  9. securitisers
  10. securitises
  11. securitising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: securitise (page history and authors); securitize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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