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• n  one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another

• NATO will continue to be the guarantor of territorial defense for member states, he says, but it must also become "a provider of global peace and stability" by targeting threats .
• It should be noted that the two PBGC Executive Directors who preceded Millard understood that as guarantor of corporate pensions, the PBGC should not invest its reserves in the .
• And, once he had achieved power, the gun remained its guarantor.

• surety
• warrantor
• warranter

News & Articles

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• Focusing on Fannie, Freddie's Future
  Republicans and Democrats have begun work on a bipartisan bill that would replace Fannie and Freddie within five years with a new "public guarantor," part of a broader framework designed to wean the government from its outsized role backstopping the nation's $10 trillion mortgage market, the Wall Street Journal reports.
  June 17, 2013 - Los Angeles Business Journal

Quotes

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• Boris Gryzlov in Washington Post
  Russia's historic role of the guarantor of peace in the Caucasus has increased,said Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the lower chamber. "The Caucasus has always been and will remain the zone of Russia's strategic interests."
• Robert Gates in Washington Post
  The same is true with the press, in my view a critically important guarantor of our freedom,Gates said.
• Dmitry Medvedev in AFP
  Russia, as guarantor of security in the Caucasus and the region, will make the decision which unambiguously supports the will of these two Caucasus peoples,Medvedev said.