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Definition of Safeguard
1. Verb. Make safe.
2. Noun. A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.. "We let our guard down"
Generic synonyms: Measure, Step
Specialized synonyms: Backstop, Security, Security Measures
Derivative terms: Precautionary
3. Verb. Escort safely.
4. Noun. A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war.
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
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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