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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
safeguard
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ The goal of child protection services became safeguarding children while also working to reunite them with their abusive parents.
future
▪ Five years later, in 1899, he sold it to the Trust to safeguard the future of his plot.
▪ You can help by joining the Research Defence Society and supporting our work to safeguard the future of biological and medical research.
▪ Centre safe: Cleveland County Council has safeguarded the future of the county's busiest tourist information centre for the next year.
▪ Even though she's only 22, she is very keen on safeguarding her future.
health
▪ It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
▪ The Building Regulations are to safeguard the health and safety of those in and around the building.
▪ To safeguard their health in the meantime you could give them advice about how to reduce the risks they are taking.
interest
▪ The Transport Secretary has decided to set up a new rail pension scheme to safeguard their interests.
▪ Yet the argument that Hong Kong could learn from Macau in safeguarding its interests bears little scrutiny.
▪ We are dedicated to improving crop protection while safeguarding the interests of the user, consumer and the environment.
▪ They include setting up a new track authority and consumer committees to safeguard the interest of passengers.
▪ How able or willing have the courts been to safeguard prisoners' interests when conditions under the Act become intolerable?
▪ It is an ambiguous term, with connotations from legal practice of employing a professional to safeguard one's interests.
job
▪ The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs.
▪ And it will safeguard hundreds of jobs.
▪ Together, these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs.
▪ It will safeguard jobs for at least 3 years.
▪ It will also allow employers to take steps to safeguard jobs and businesses.
position
▪ There has been another substantial increase for 1992-93, an increase which safeguards the position of all children in Cambridgeshire.
security
▪ By the same token, going to war may be a way of safeguarding security in the long run.
welfare
▪ Doughty would admit that in order to safeguard the welfare state income tax would have to go up.
▪ The statutory responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of the community and children in particular often involves recourse to the courts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Be sure to safeguard your passport at all times.
▪ Effective programs are available to safeguard your data against computer viruses.
▪ The new legislation will safeguard the rights of low-paid workers.
▪ Unless we fight pollution now, we cannot safeguard our children's future.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Filing the will with the clerk is simply a way of safeguarding it, and nothing else.
▪ It was always an objective of the sadly-moribund Vulcan Association that the future of the aircraft be safeguarded once retired.
▪ Smallfry wanted to safeguard him against danger and jealousy.
▪ The deal should safeguard thousands of jobs.
▪ The humanitarian reasons for safeguarding this provision should be sufficient in themselves.
▪ There are also important questions about the handling, safeguarding and transport of missile systems.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.
▪ Even if that is confirmed, it is often unwise not to seek additional safeguards in your contract.
▪ Apart from these weaknesses, the Government has seen fit to deny an additional safeguard which might have been presumed to operate.
▪ Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.
adequate
▪ Withdrawal before coming is unlikely to be an adequate safeguard as some secretions will still be exchanged.
▪ Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.
▪ Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help.
certain
▪ Dertouzos called for government regulation to prevent the linking of databases containing personal information without certain safeguards.
▪ With certain safeguards for patients who, for example, may require liver transplants in Philadelphia full range fundholding seems a realistic possibility.
▪ This was an additional reason for giving supremacy to the Constitution and for introducing certain extra safeguards into it.
environmental
▪ Those who anticipate that both will be granted will campaign for legislation to enforce a new schedule of environmental safeguards.
▪ At home the administration has abandoned a succession of environmental safeguards.
▪ The Green Party aims to gain concessions on environmental safeguards for nuclear power and on the ingredients of unleaded petrol.
▪ Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.
nuclear
▪ Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.
procedural
▪ Valuing the social benefits and costs of procedural safeguards may be equally problematic.
▪ One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.
▪ These procedural safeguards apply to most stop and search powers not simply those exercised under the P. &038; C.E. Act.
▪ Formal justice and procedural safeguards are best for child-care cases, whereas informal methods suit divorce and custody disputes.
proper
▪ May I wish my hon. and learned Friend well in getting proper safeguards over the vexed problem of undisclosed sites?
▪ We must ensure that there are proper safeguards in legislation.
■ VERB
build
▪ They may also be able to build in some safeguards which would make it possible for them to give permission.
provide
▪ Genetically modified organisms: The bill provides for additional safeguards against the import, containment and release of Genetically Modified Organisms.
▪ Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount.
▪ Early warning and fault recovery functions of the system also provide a safeguard against operational crises and the risk of human error.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anti-virus software is a simple safeguard that many computer users have not bothered to install.
▪ As a safeguard against misuse, memorize your PIN number immediately and destroy this advice slip.
▪ There's a safeguard built into the tenancy agreement that says the landlord must give you three months' notice to quit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is a safeguard to permit volumes to be regarded as full when exact filling is not possible.
▪ Jermyn will hold the information as a personal safeguard for himself against Harold, whom he now hates.
▪ Life includes contact with men in a caring situation, ensuring appropriate safeguards are taken.
▪ One then posed the question whether fairness required any additional procedural safeguards.
▪ The nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union was scattered among four new countries with few safeguards.
▪ There are safeguards against each of these possibilities.
▪ We want something written into the Bill that makes it likely that some of the consumer safeguards will become a reality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Safeguard

Safeguard \Safe"guard`\, v. t. To guard; to protect.
--Shak.

Safeguard

Safeguard \Safe"guard`\, n. [Safe = guard: cf. F. sauvegarde.]

  1. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.
    --Shak.

    Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.
    --Granville.

  2. A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.

  3. A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
safeguard

late 14c., "protection, safety," from Middle French sauvegarde "safekeeping, safeguard" (13c.), from Old French salve, sauve (fem. of sauf; see safe (adj.)) + garde "a keeping" (see guard (n.)). Meaning "something that offers security from danger" is recorded from late 15c.

safeguard

mid-15c., from safeguard (n.). Related: Safeguarded; safeguarding.

Wiktionary
safeguard

n. 1 Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense. 2 One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection. 3 A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war. vb. 1 to protect, to keep safe 2 to escort safely

WordNet
safeguard

  1. n. 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" [syn: precaution, guard]

  2. a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war [syn: safe-conduct]

  3. v. make safe

  4. escort safely

Wikipedia
Safeguard

A safeguard, in international law is a restraint on international trade or economic development to protect communities from development aggression or home industries from foreign competition.

In the World Trade Organization (WTO), a member may take a safeguard action, such as restricting imports of a product temporarily to protect a domestic industry from an increase in imports causing or threatening to cause injury to domestic production.

In the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, safeguards are intended to protect indigenous peoples and other local communities with traditional knowledge of natural resource management, within efforts towards reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

The WTO and UNFCCC concepts are related within international law.

Safeguard (soap)

Safeguard is an antibacterial soap marketed by Procter & Gamble, introduced circa 1965.

Safeguard (disambiguation)

A safeguard is a tool of international trade.

Safeguard may also refer to some of the following:

  • A combined understanding of child safeguarding and the similar safeguarding of vulnerable adults (broadly construed).
in military:
  • Safeguard (military), a detachment, guard or detail or a written order for the protection of enemy or neutral persons, places, or property in wartime, pledging respect for that person or property by a nation's armed forces.
  • Safeguard Program, a US anti-ballistic missile system
  • USNS Safeguard (T-ARS-50), lead ship of the US Navy's current class of marine salvage ships
in government and law:
  • Safeguards Rule, promulgated under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, requires financial institutions to have a security plan to protect the confidentiality and integrity of personal consumer information
  • Safeguarding is a process by which a proposed route or location of a government project is protected from conflicting development (UK)
in software:
  • Trend Micro SafeGuard, a secure browser for Windows 8 by Trend Micro
  • 360 Safeguard, a Chinese computer security program for Windows
Other:
  • Safeguard Coaches, a bus and coach operator based in Guildford, England
  • Safeguard (soap), a brand of bar soap sold in the United States
  • Safeguard (Transformers), a Mini-Con in the Transformers: Cybertron toy line
Safeguard (magazine)

Safeguard is a New Zealand magazine devoted to occupational health and safety. It features articles and information on managing health and safety in the workplace and is aimed at employers in all industries and at health and safety professionals. The magazine was launched as a quarterly in 1988 by the Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) of the Department of Labour. It was subsequently taken over by a commercial company, Colour Workshop.'' Safeguard'' is now published bi-monthly by Thomson Reuters ( Auckland).

Usage examples of "safeguard".

By the solemn adjudication of courts, and under the safeguards of law, the fact of guilt is to be established, and the guilty punished.

It is our pride that our townsman, David Davis, was among the ablest of the great court, by whose adjudication renewed vigor was given to the Constitution, and enduring safeguards established for national life and individual liberty.

FDA falling down on the job when it came to safeguarding the purity of whatever remedy the ailment of the moment demanded.

Americanism, Leo XIII ruled out any hope of democracy for the church, arguing that only absolute authority could safeguard against heresy.

But Havilland had been an engineer himself, and he knew exactly what their huge machines were capable of, what safeguards were taken, and that Alan Argyll, of all people, would not want injuries or time lost.

But in two cases arising under the National Industrial Recovery Act, a policy declaration of comparable generality was held insufficient for the promulgation of rules applicable to all persons engaged in a designated activity, without the procedural safeguards which surround the issuance of individual orders.

Almighty enable you to lend a fresh and unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Faith, revive the spirit of its supporters, enlarge its limits, multiply its local institutions, consolidate its foundations, safeguard its rights, spread abroad its fame, and aid its followers to discharge befittingly their responsibilities, and concentrate on the attainment of the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan, on which the immediate destiny of the entire community depends.

It was plain that she was not at all in love with me, and that she was glad that there was a safeguard in the person of her maid, and that thus we could be together without danger, for she could not ignore the power of her charms.

Let us have no documents, no safeguards, but give yourself up to me as Rosalie did, and begin to-night without my promising anything.

I knew that Donna Ignazia had told her all, and as she was no restraint on me I did not mind her being at supper, while Ignazia looked upon her as a safeguard.

Like every compound it must consist of things progressively differing in form and safeguarded in that form.

He rehearsed the history of physical intimidation during 1789, which made it evident that all his professions of devotion to the people of Paris had only been made under duress and the need to safeguard the lives of his family.

The one safeguard against an evil so great was the restoration of self-government to the people who had rebelled, the broadening of the elective franchise, the abolition of caste and privilege.

All flows, so to speak, from one fount not to be thought of as one breath or warmth but rather as one quality englobing and safeguarding all qualities--sweetness with fragrance, wine--quality and the savours of everything that may be tasted, all colours seen, everything known to touch, all that ear may hear, all melodies, every rhythm.

The Ephors acting in their capacity as Protectors of the Citizens have requested the Ultimate Decree, authorizing the Kings to take all necessary actions to safeguard the State, and it has been duly moved and seconded.