tight security

collocation in English

meaningsoftightandsecurity

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tight
adjective
adverb
uk
/taɪt/us
/taɪt/
(held or kept together) firmly ...
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security
noun
uk
/sɪˈkjʊə.rə.ti/us
/səˈkjʊr.ə.t̬i/
protection of a person, building, organization, or country against threats such as crime or attacks by ...
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(Definition oftightandsecurityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftight security

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I understand that the offence occurs and that respectable companies must havetightsecurity.
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Thetightsecurityin town centres, vehicle check points, control over explosives and other measures have combined substantially to reduce the level of violence.
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Thus, we havetightsecurityclassification to protect facts which have awkward political implications.
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A feature of this event was thetightsecurityand military discipline.
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Will he also accept that grave reductions in our civil liberties are involved, due to thetightsecurityarrangements that are frequently necessary?
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It is significant that these three devices were all inside thetightsecuritynet surrounding the city centre.
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We appreciate the need fortightsecurity, but we wonder how long the present arrangements will persist.
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Extra meetings were held that not only allocated jobs but mentioned the necessity fortightsecurityand warned of the difficult times ahead.
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At present, such prisoners are spread out all over the country, which results intightsecuritymeasures in other prisons, and they add to the suffering of other prisoners.
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Undertightsecurityprocedures various anonymised datasets are provided to research institutions for validated research projects.
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The project is put undertightsecurityand its progress followed worldwide.
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Also, while most high-profile museums have extremelytightsecurity, many places with multimillion art collections works have disproportionately poor security measures.
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This school is huge and private and hastightsecurity.
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Fortightsecurity, a certificateless system has to prove its security against two types of adversaries.
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They occupied a large marshalling area withtightsecurity.
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Skyscrapers'tightsecurityand isolation from the rest of the city makes them ideal for dramatic crisis and trap situations including hostage-taking, heists and fire.
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He was kept undertightsecurityand was supervised 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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The integrity of the award is upheld by thetightsecurityand secrecy surrounding the votes.
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