suretiship
suretiship is the alternative form of suretyship.
Meaning of suretyship
Noun
suretyship (plural suretyships)
- An accessory agreement through which one binds oneself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for one's debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another.
- as a man desperately swimming drowns him that comes to help him, by suretyship and borrowing they will willingly undo all their associates and allies […]., vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.290
- Synonyms:
- borrowage, borrowship
Forms of suretiship
| plural | suretiships |
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Questions about suretiship
- What is suretiship the alternative form of?
- Suretiship is the alternative form of suretyship.
Words near suretiship in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: suretiship (page history and authors); suretyship (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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