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Meaning safeguard meaning

What does safeguard mean?

safeguard

— verb make safe — noun (= precaution, guard) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution an insurance policy is a good safeguard we let our guard down — verb escort safely — noun (= safe-conduct) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war

Synonyms safeguard synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as safeguard?

safeguard English » English

protect protection guard shield preserve defend secure precaution guarantee defence shelter security defense cover safe-conduct keep save maintain watch over take care of screen safekeeping harbour ensure conserve back watch ward tutelage prevent pledge patronage make safe look after guarding care buffer assure aegis warrant warming vouch vindicate uphold underwrite undertaking tutelary trust thawing talisman

Topics safeguard topics

What do people use safeguard to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Protect
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Defend

Conjugation safeguard conjugation

How do you conjugate safeguard?

safeguard · verb

Examples safeguard examples

How do I use safeguard in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.

Movie subtitles

You may thank your lucky stars they sent for me to safeguard life and property.
Why didn't you safeguard those drownded and murdered?
I do my duty and safeguard France.
Preserve us from the dangers of the sea and the violence of the enemy, that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious sovereign lord, King George, and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions.
To safeguard ourselves against all eventualities we prepare.
Personally, I don't doubt your good faith, but I'm here to safeguard my country's interests.
Saint Michael, the archy angel, be our safeguard against the viles and wickedness of the devil.
One by one, in spite of every safeguard, my coworkers were torn.
That's why I'm anxious to safeguard his interests.
I must safeguard my love.
I'm sorry to spring myself on you in this way, but it's part of my job to see that people are on their toes and that the safeguard clauses in our policy are being complied with.
The idea was for Plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.
A safeguard?
I'm not saying anyone here would, but a young bride deserves every safeguard.
I felt Tommy needed a real, experienced detective to safeguard him, so I. So she hired me, the greatest detective since Sherlock Holmes.
One by one, in spite of every safeguard, my coworkers were torn literally limb from limb.
To facilitate certain tests, and to safeguard your health I asked you gentlemen to be in by 11 p. m.
All this to safeguard secrets, then some fool gets his bag swiped.
But they're manufactured under every imaginable safeguard.
You should have done everything in your power to safeguard your crew.
It's a safeguard.
I felt Tommy needed a real, experienced detective to safeguard him, so I.
I must safeguard the health of my troops.
He must do to safeguard his own beliefs.
But I'd waste a hundred times that much to safeguard my family.
But surely they're manufactured under every imaginable safeguard.
You should have known what could have happened and done everything in your power to safeguard your crew.
Well, if an emergency develops, there'll be no safeguard at the drill head.
In my experience, when an oil shaft blows with no safeguard.
I cannot move to safeguard Merrin's testament. until all the facts about his last exorcism are clearly known.
I must safeguard the race bank!
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one.

News and current affairs

A new CAP should include a policy to safeguard Europe's landscapes.
They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.
What is happening at the moment could be described as a power struggle over who should be responsible for a service that more and more people wish to be available but where no amount of professional expertise can fully safeguard the right decision.
Business is motivated by profit; it is not designed to safeguard universal principles.
Unfortunately, existing international institutions, like the UN, are ill-suited to safeguard universal interests because they are associations of states, and states jealously guard their interests.
Thus, they would minimize the deterioration in their trade surpluses, maintain competitive exchange rates, and safeguard their foreign reserves and net-creditor positions.
Emerging-market economies will take some steps, including interest-rate cuts, to safeguard domestic growth.
The EBRD would safeguard the legitimate interests of all parties (including Russia), ensuring the proper operation and maintenance of the pipelines and overseeing the distribution of transit fees.
Modern technology makes it easy to have a paper trail for voting machines, at little cost; yet several states chose not to provide this minimal safeguard.
Active citizens who defend the liberal order must thus be its safeguard.
But there is another, and a more important element to safeguard, which is the rule of law.
One thing is certain: it will require a lot more than a warmed-over Lisbon Agenda, with easy targets and toothless enforcement, to restore confidence in the euro and safeguard the monetary union.
The EIB argues that fossil-fuel lending supports strategic projects that safeguard European energy security.
The IMF's creditors consider it a necessary safeguard against increased risks in the Fund's credit portolio.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
Qaddafi used strong security services and paramilitary revolutionary committees to safeguard his rule, leaving state institutions dysfunctional and fragmented.
Instead of introducing more legislation that is tainted both in the popular imagination and in its utility, Britain could, after all, trust its constitution to act as and when required to safeguard liberty and fair play.
By ensuring that the pursuit of new knowledge remains a high priority, Europe can safeguard the scientific revolution and retain a leading edge globally, despite having fewer people than other regions.
As we face the forces of extremism and terror, we must have the courage to speak up for those ideals and to safeguard the right to say what we believe.
And, like ocean piracy and airplane hijacking, cyber-crime cannot be allowed to go unpunished if we are to safeguard our common assets and collective interests.
And there is now a common understanding in China that meeting this objective requires that the government safeguard financial liberalization.
And, as a rule, such states then try to safeguard their interests by imposing their predominance (hegemony), which is a recipe for dangerous conflict if based on coercion rather than cooperation.
International monitoring can also safeguard against frivolous use of such mechanisms.
This means that agriculture should become an international priority, with the poorest countries helped to safeguard the security and independence of their food supplies.
COPENHAGEN - Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules.

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