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safety net

  1. a net suspended as beneath circus aerialists to catch them if they fall
  2. any protection against failure or loss

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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