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Definition of Safekeeping
1. Noun. The responsibility of a guardian or keeper. "He left his car in my keeping"
Specialized synonyms: Custody, Hands
Generic synonyms: Duty, Obligation, Responsibility
Derivative terms: Guardian, Keep
Definition of Safekeeping
1. n. The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
Definition of Safekeeping
1. Noun. the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft ¹
2. Noun. the storage of assets in a protected area ¹
3. Noun. the responsibility of a guardian ¹
4. Noun. (American English) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Safekeeping
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safekeeping
Literary usage of Safekeeping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"The Officer produces in Court the ring in question, which he had in safekeeping,
whereupon parties being heard, each declares in particular that it is the ..."
2. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence: A Presentation of the Law of by John Cassan Wait (1898)
"Materials and Tools to Become Property of Owner, but the Contractor Is to Be and
Remain Responsible for their safekeeping. Clause : "All materials ..."
3. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence: A Presentation of the Law of by John Cassan Wait (1897)
"Materials and Tools to Become Property of Owner, but the Contractor Is to Be and
Remain Responsible for their safekeeping. Clause: "All materials ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"... be held for a failure to collect it must appear that he was the proper person
to make the collection.4 (2) Duty to Keep and Account — (a) safekeeping. ..."
5. Laws by Illinois (1919)
"AN ACT to amend section 1 of, "An Act to regulate and control the investment and
safekeeping of the reserve funds of fraternal beneficiary societies, ..."
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