safeguard
safe·guard (-gärd′)
noun
any person or thing that protects or guards against loss or injury; specif.,
- a precaution or protective stipulation
- a permit or pass allowing safe passage
- Now Rare a convoy or guard
- a safety device, as on machinery
transitive verb
to protect or guard
safeguard
n.
Protection
guard, shield, surety; see defense 1, protection 2.License
pass, safe-conduct, passport; see escort, permission.
See Also: Risk.
Object
- integrity: The provider should deliver reliable and secure connectivity to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of corporate data.
- welfare: Local authorities play a major role in safeguarding the welfare of animals.
- confidentiality: The provisions also implement an article, which requires member states to safeguard the confidentiality of communications.
- well-being: The review's aim is to develop a workforce that can deliver personalized, user-led services and safeguard the well-being of vulnerable people.
- privacy: We will use our best endeavors to safeguard the privacy of you.
- asset: The primary reason for such appointment is usually to safeguard the assets pending the winding up hearing.
Converse of object
- strengthen: The Committee would consider the safeguards system of the IAEA, including ' Program 93+2 ' and efforts to strengthen safeguards.
Preposition: against
- abuse: Real wisdom is the only safeguard against the abuse of power.
- fraud: To safeguard against fraud and losses, we have a range of operating procedures and controls in place.
Adjective modifier
- procedural: A breach of privacy would surely be justified under such circumstances as long as there are appropriate procedural safeguards.
- adequate: Secondly, there must be adequate safeguards at the first hearing.
- stringent: Section 2.35 It is claimed that " A population register ⦠would have stringent safeguards to protect the privacy of personal data.
- proper: The Commissioners concluded that in the circumstances the proper safeguards were in place and the independence of the charity was protected.
- sufficient: The Guidelines do not have sufficient safeguards for basic transactions relating to IP at present.
- constitutional: The independence of the judiciary and of the legal profession is a fundamental constitutional safeguard.
Modifies a noun
- agreement: All OAS members that are required to have comprehensive safeguards agreements under Article III of the Treaty have at least signed such agreements.
- obligation: These would include the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's continued non-compliance with its NPT safeguards obligations.
Noun used with modifier
- IAEA: The EU appeals to all stares not party to the NPT to place all their nuclear activities under IAEA safeguards.
- full-scope: Libya An NPT party with full-scope IAEA safeguards, Libya continues to develop its nuclear infrastructure.
- confidentiality: Security and confidentiality Acas safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures.
Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.
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