safeguard
IPA: sˈeɪfgɑrd
noun
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- (obsolete) The monitor lizard.
verb
- To protect, to keep safe.
- (UK, Ireland, by extension) To implement safeguarding.
- To escort safely.
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Examples of "safeguard" in Sentences
- This safeguard is necessary and provides a modicum of editorial oversight and moderation.
- Although this safeguard is built into the salary cap just for this reason, the psychology of players "losing" that escrow isn't going to sit well with them.
- China agreed in its Accession Protocol with the rest of the WTO members and the United States that such short term safeguard measures could be applied against them.
- Without Borders is the best long term safeguard against any food deficit as the initiative would guarantee the movement of maize at any point from surplus to deficit areas, he said.
- In all horse sports, individual conscience is the main safeguard for the horses, but in modern racing, there is a reasonable amount of policing, especially at the larger tracks and with the bigger races.
- For, look you, this protection of our lives and coast, this safeguard from the scourge of war, we have it now as much as you of England; you from the hardearned money that you pay, we as the peasant pensioners of your Imperial bounty.
- The owner of the building, Heart of la Defense SAS, or Hold, and its parent company, Dame Luxembourg SARL, last week won the right to use so-called safeguard procedures, protection similar to the U.S.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
- (The) constitutional safeguard is a must to hinder any homophobic interpretations of those vague concepts in law such as ‘general morals’ or ’social values’ by barristers, who suffer from the very same social prejudices as many others in society.
- The case was an emotional one, since the U.S. move made use of a so-called safeguard mechanism, spelled out in China ' s WTO accession agreement, that is unique to China and allows trading partners to restrict imports from it without meeting the same burden of proof required for other countries ' goods.
- Some governments have argued that the only safeguard is for the nuclear powers to retain a great part of their stocks to act as a deterrent to aggression, that total abolition will only be safe when there is some new Geiger counter, some miraculous new instrument or method that will detect the faintly radioactive H-bomb behind its concrete shield.
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