escrow
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Something (e.g., a document, an encryption key) that is "delivered to a third person to be given to the grantee only upon the fulfillment of a condition."
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017
A deed, a bond, money, or a piece of property held in trust by a third party to be turned over to the grantee only upon fulfillment of a condition.
Wordset Dictionary
a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
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Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Escrow
- plural
- escrows
- possessive
- escrow's
- pluralpossessive
- escrows'