What is the meaning of the word "security" in the National Security Act?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Hocking v. Dubois, 885 F.2d 1449 (9th Cir. 1989):

[I]n searching for the meaning and scope of the word 'security' in the Act[s], form should be disregarded for substance and the emphasis should be on economic reality. Tcherepnin v. Knight, 389 U.S. 332, 336, 88 S.Ct. 548, 553, 19 L.Ed.2d 564 (1967).

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