The Collaborative International Dictionary
Safe-keeping \Safe"-keep"ing\, n. [Safe + keep.] The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. (alternative spelling of safekeeping English)
Usage examples of "safe-keeping".
But however that may be, certainly the muniments were moved here for safe-keeping about that time.
The subject heretofore and now to be discussed is the subtreasury scheme of the present administration, as a means of collecting, safe-keeping, transferring, and disbursing, the revenues of the nation, as contrasted with a national bank for the same purposes.
The house in Tanton Gardens had been locked up and most of the valuables had been sent to the bank for safe-keeping, but there were enough portable articles of value in the house to make a good haul for any burglar.
He held out his hand, and Sir Cyril placed in it the manuscript, which the navigator had saved from the wreck and returned to him for safe-keeping.
Chewing her wedding cake Babygirl is disconcerted to discover something tough, sinewy, bristly in it, like gristle, or fragments of bone, or tiny bits of wire, but she is too well-bred and embarrassed to spit the foreign substance, if it is a foreign substance, out: discreetly pushes it with her tongue to the side of her mouth, behind her molars, for safe-keeping.
Jack tossed the letter for safe-keeping into the caulked trunk that contained van Hoek’s books, and re-sealed it.
Cadfael grasped young Corviser under the arms, hoisted him to his feet and hauled him out of harm’s way, thrusting him bodily into the arms of his friends for safe-keeping, since he was still in a daze.
As brilliant as she was beautiful, she had been a key researcher in the Maw installation-the Imperial think-tank that had created the Death Stars, the World Devastators that had ravaged Mort Calamari and the starfighter-sized, invincible Sun Crusher that Kyp Durron had just sunk into the depths of Yavin for safe-keeping.
The next day the captain decided to move the gold coins ashore for safe-keeping.
The senior ordnance officer immediately ordered the bombs removed, and returned to their place of safe-keeping.