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Definition of Security blanket

1. Noun. Anything that an adult person uses to reduce anxiety.

2. Noun. A blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety.

Definition of Security blanket

1. Noun. A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life: ''Linus van Pelt had a famous '''security blanket'''.'' ¹

2. Noun. Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Security Blanket

securitisation securitisations securitise securitised securitises securitising securitization securitizations securitize securitized

securitizer securitizers securitizes securitizing security security blanket (current term) security blankets security by design security camera security communities

security community security consultant security department security deposit security deposits security director security force security forces security guard security guards

Literary usage of Security blanket

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

1. Puzzle Pieces: A Play in One Act by Krista Boehnert (2003)
"I turned it into my security blanket. I sleep with it at night, ... My security blanket and I have way too much of a history to ¡ust give it away to some ..."

2. HIV/AIDS: Instructional Guide for Teachers, Grades K Through 3 by DIANE Publishing Company (1992)
"B. Ask the students what a security blanket is. Explain that just as a security blanket gives a child a sense of being safe, certain people can serve as our ..."

3. Future of Social Security for This Generation and the Next: Current State of edited by Jim Bunning (1997)
"The need for a "security blanket". ... Fairness and commitment. • Most important, the need to recognize that this is only the opening of the debate. ..."

4. Worldwide Threats to National Security: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by John Warner (2000)
"... is organized crime, and that is operating and proliferating beneath the security blanket being provided by our troops and the other troops of the world. ..."

5. The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy by James H. Noyes (1982)
"The removal of what literally for more than 150 years had been the region's security blanket, the British security agreements and military presence, ..."

6. Major Powers in Northeast Asian Security by Ralph A. Cossa (1996)
"This American security blanket not only protects the security interests of friends and allies, it also protects and promotes US political, economic, ..."

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