Other forms: guarantors
A guarantor is somebody who promises to pay if you cannot. Need a guarantor, act as guarantor, a parent as guarantor.
Standing as one is a serious commitment and often misunderstood: the lender can come to the guarantor first and need not chase the borrower, which is why the advice is never to sign for an amount you could not pay yourself. Students and new tenants are commonly asked for one. Note guarantee, and warrant, which is the same word.
1nounguarantorSomebody who promises to pay if you cannot.
“As a student with no income, she needed her father to act as guarantor for her flat.”
guarantor is a person who promises.
Guarantee plus -or, from Old French garant, a warrant, of Germanic origin. Warrant is the same word arriving separately.
From -or. From guarantee + or.
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