Definition of Safeguard

1. Noun. A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.. "We let our guard down"

Exact synonyms: Guard, Precaution
Generic synonyms: Measure, Step
Specialized synonyms: Backstop, Security, Security Measures
Derivative terms: Precautionary

2. Verb. Make safe.
Generic synonyms: Protect

3. Noun. A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war.
Exact synonyms: Safe-conduct
Generic synonyms: Pass, Passport

4. Verb. Escort safely.
Generic synonyms: Escort

Definition of Safeguard

1. n. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.

2. v. t. To guard; to protect.

Definition of Safeguard

1. Noun. something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense ¹

2. Noun. a safe-conduct, especially in time of war ¹

3. Verb. to protect, to keep safe ¹

4. Verb. to escort safely ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Safeguard

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safeguard

safe room
safe seat
safe seats
safebox
safeboxes
safebreaker
safebreakers
safebreaking
safebreakings
safecracker
safecrackers
safecracking
safecrackings
safed
safeguard (current term)
safeguarded
safeguarder
safeguarders
safeguarding
safeguards
safehold
safehouse
safehouses
safeish
safekeeping
safekeepings
safelight
safelights
safelike

Literary usage of Safeguard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"A LETTER from AG Boone, Indian Agent for Upper Arkansas, has been received at the Indian Bureau, enclosing letters of safeguard issued by Albert Pike, ..."

2. Supporting Congressional Oversight: Budgetary Implications of Selected Gao edited by Paul L. Posner (2002)
"While funding has increased, in 2002 it will still remain below program safeguard funding levels in the previous decade, adjusted for inflation. ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Their poverty indeed became an additional safeguard to their innocence. When Tacitus was elected by the senate, he resigned his ample patrimony to the ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"... fail to safeguard the very foundation of the citadel. But Its function In preserving our representative government has long been recognized. ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"A LETTER from AG Boone, Indian Agent for Upper Arkansas, has been received at the Indian Bureau, enclosing letters of safeguard issued by Albert Pike, ..."

6. Supporting Congressional Oversight: Budgetary Implications of Selected Gao edited by Paul L. Posner (2002)
"While funding has increased, in 2002 it will still remain below program safeguard funding levels in the previous decade, adjusted for inflation. ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Their poverty indeed became an additional safeguard to their innocence. When Tacitus was elected by the senate, he resigned his ample patrimony to the ..."

8. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"... fail to safeguard the very foundation of the citadel. But Its function In preserving our representative government has long been recognized. ..."

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