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What does sec mean?

sec

(= second) 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (of champagne) moderately dry (= secant) ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

SEC

(= Securities and Exchange Commission) an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

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second secant s unsweet dry secretary secondary

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Simple sentences

Wait a sec.
Hold on a sec.
Would you mind if I speak to Tom alone for a sec?
Hang on a sec.
I'll be there in a sec.
I'll be back in a sec.
Do you have a sec?
Can I talk to you a sec?
Could I talk to you a sec?
Can I see you for a sec?
Tom, can I see you a sec?
Could you excuse us a sec?

Movie subtitles

Wait a sec.
Yeah, Josh. can I talk to you for a sec?
Josh, can I talk to you for a sec?
Sorry, I'll be out in a sec.
Hold on a sec!
Excuse me a sec.
Already 30 sec left.
Pour the tea, be back in a sec.
Very well. I'll change in no time and be back in a sec.
S great? Sec? N the book, to be opened last morning, at dusk.
Wait a sec, Miss Rider.
Give me the file for a sec?
You got a sec, Joe?
All right, Colin, just a sec.
Mr. Camonte's sec..
Wait a sec!
You think so? Alright. Tell them, we'll come down in a sec.
You'll understand in a sec. Oome here!
You'll see in a sec! Which of you had the idea to send the police after us?!
Just a sec.
Just a sec, Mom.
I'll change in no time and be back in a sec.
Waiting 5 years for 1 sec. of pleasure? Any woman good give me that!
Hold it a sec, Sal.
Come sit. Just wait a sec!
Alright. Tell them, we'll come down in a sec.
You'll understand in a sec.
That reminds me, wait a sec.
Just a sec, we're coming!
I'll be there in a sec!
Right. Hold on a sec.
Wait a sec, I have a torch.

News and current affairs

The SEC was once a great and powerful independent agency.
Investors also see that the US regulatory system is stronger than the SEC alone.
So investors know that even if a Federal agency like the SEC overlooks or ignores serious regulatory problems, another regulator might step in.
The SEC's new rules for crowdfunding are complex, because they address a complicated problem.
Unfortunately, the SEC's new crowdsourcing rules don't go as far as they should.
Some of the SEC rules do work against deception.
The SEC and other regulators could go even further.
The Dodd-Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.
Indeed, regulatory agencies like the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) arose because common-law fiduciary duties failed to protect distant owners.
By contrast, the SEC is a rule-generating institution of the type that civil-law countries like France or Germany would have little difficulty creating if they wished to.
NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs, we can be sure, will vigorously contest the civil suit brought against it by the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Ordinary securities must be registered with the SEC before they can be traded.
And a striking new voice has joined the fray - Kara Stein, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
For example, the SEC has traditionally thought about adequate equity capital in a regulated business, primarily as the amount needed to help compensate customers in the event that individual firms fail.
Not everyone at the SEC is as sensible as Stein.
The SEC rule was an attempt to grant institutional investors this right.