guarantor

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹəntə(ɹ)/, /ˈɡæɹəntɔː(ɹ)/

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Noun

guarantor (plural guarantors)

1. A person, company, or organization that provides a guarantee.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 282:

     The party is the visible embodiment of class-consciousness, the sole guarantor of the correct political orientation of the proletariat and the sole exponent of its 'real' will.

Synonyms

• guaranteer
• surety
• guarantee

Derived terms

• coguarantor
• guarantorship

Translations

person or company that provides a guarantee

• Arabic: كَافِل m (kāfil)
• Bengali: জামিন (bn) (jamin)
• Bulgarian: гара́нт (bg) m (garánt), поръчи́тел (bg) m (porăčítel), поръчи́телка f (porăčítelka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擔保人 / 担保人 (zh) (dānbǎorén), 保證人 / 保证人 (zh) (bǎozhèngrén)

• Czech: ručitel m
• Danish: garant, kautionist
• Esperanto: garantianto
• Finnish: takaaja (fi)
• German: Garant (de) m, Garantiegeber m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐγγυητής m (enguētḗs)

• Hebrew: עָרֵב (he) m (arév)
• Hindi: प्रतिभू (hi) m (pratibhū)
• Hungarian: kezes (hu)
• Irish: urra m
• Japanese: 保証人 (ja) (hoshōnin)
• Latin: sponsor m, nōtor (la) m
• Macedonian: гара́нт m (garánt), за́ложник m (záložnik), жира́нт m (žiránt), ќе́фил m (ḱéfil) (archaic)
• Malay: penjamin
• Manx: barrantagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: garantist m

  Nynorsk: garantist m

• Polish: gwarant (pl) m, gwarantka f
• Portuguese: fiador (pt) m, avalista m or f
• Romanian: garant (ro) m
• Russian: гара́нт (ru) m (garánt), поручи́тель (ru) m (poručítelʹ), поручи́тельница (ru) f (poručítelʹnica)
• Spanish: garante (es) m, fía (es) f, segurador m, fiador (es) m, avalista (es) m or f
• Swedish: garant (sv) c
• Turkish: kefil (tr)

Anagrams

• arrogaunt