safeguard against something
safeguard
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈseɪf.ɡɑːd/ us /ˈseɪf.ɡɑːrd/
a law, rule, or something that is done to protect someone or something from harm or damage:
The disk has built-in safeguards to prevent certain errors.
The industry has been criticised for not providing adequate safeguards against poisoning.
The company did not have appropriate safeguards in place to manufacture drugs safely.
Sufficient safeguards were not in place to double-check the results.
The commission imposed strict environmental safeguards on the project.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Safe and secure
airworthiness
as safe as housesidiom
biosafety
bite
clear of something
harmlessness
have/lead a sheltered lifeidiom
health and safety
impregnable
impregnably
nonexposed
out of danger
potable
protected
roadworthy
unassailed
unbruised
unthreatening
untouchable
well kept

safeguard | American Dictionary

safeguard
verb[ T ]
us/ˈseɪf·ɡɑrd/
to protect someone or something from harm or destruction:
Judges have an obligation to safeguard our right to free speech and a free press.

safeguard

noun[ C ]us/ˈseɪf·ɡɑrd/
The best safeguard against someone stealing your car is to lock it.

safeguard | Business English

safeguard
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈseɪfɡɑːd/us
to protect someone or something so that they are not harmed, damaged, or lost:
New steps are being taken to safeguard medical workers in the war zone.
safeguard (sb/sth) against sthThe agency did not consistently install protections to safeguard against unauthorized computer access.
safeguard
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈseɪfɡɑːd/us
something that you do or provide in order to protect someone or something from harm, damage, or loss:
safeguard for sth/sbThe new laws contain important safeguards for credit card customers.
safeguard against sthKeeping a large cash reserve is, for some airlines, the best safeguard against another bankruptcy.

Examples of safeguard

safeguard
Thus, before 1967, there were effective safeguards to the maintenance of good quality cocoa.
The data gathered in this study indicate that these additional safeguards were developed through the operation of institutional learning arrangements.
Our profession is art, they claimed, and managed to get it subsidized and safeguarded as a valuable national legacy.
Two factors that are likely to influence such trade-offs are the selection pressure from parasites and the reproductive value of safeguarding future survival.
An incomplete method uses clever intuitive heuristics for searching but has no safeguards if the search gets stuck in a local minimum.
Hence, there can be no satisfactory solution to safeguarding this muscoid component of dung degradation.
Above all, the entire patriarchal structure had an interest in safeguarding women's dowries and ensuring that the system was working smoothly.
Food producers should consider stringent safeguards to prevent contamination of food-processing equipment during renovation or construction activities, including enhanced in-plant environmental monitoring.
Mathematicians should be more receptive to theoretical material but with safeguards and a strict honesty.
Similarly, assumptions about society's responsibility for safeguarding the best interests of children can be questioned.
Such studies can be used to identify weaknesses in the system, as well as opportunities for enhancing system safeguards.
However, restraints or punishment of scientists who contribute to our growing body of knowledge, in compliance with applicable regulatory safeguards, may constitute overreaching government action.
The liberties of individuals were also ostensibly safeguarded by the sworn obligation placed on many civic and company elites to rule impartially.
They have a similar obligation to make their findings known within a forum-most typically, a peer-reviewed publication-that safeguards integrity and excellence.
In addition, smaller communities had tended to provide safeguards against the outright sale of votes or the intimidation of voters.
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Collocations withsafeguard

safeguard

These are words often used in combination with safeguard.

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additional safeguard
As an additional safeguard against selective attrition, censoring information was included in survival analyses.
appropriate safeguard
In deciding on an appropriate safeguard, it is important to avoid expensive, clumsy and bureaucratic machinery.
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