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safety
  1. The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
  2. (mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
  3. (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
  4. (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
  5. Preservation from escape; close custody.
  6. (dated) A safety bicycle.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “At the moment, our primary concern is for the safety of the children.”
      “The fugitive found safety from the bounty hunters in an abandoned warehouse.”
      “The theme park performs regular checks and maintenance on its rides to ensure their safety.”
save
  1. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
  2. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
  3. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
  4. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
  5. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
safekeeping
  1. the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
  2. the storage of assets in a protected area
  3. the responsibility of a guardian
  4. (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The tour guide helpfully tells tourists that the sculptures were brought to London for safekeeping and acquired legitimately.”
      “They are placed at the disposal of the skiers, along the ski runs and skiers can also leave their own equipment for safekeeping there.”
      “These are believed to be treasures from the Temple at Jerusalem, which were hidden away for safekeeping.”
saving
  1. A reduction in cost or expenditure.
  2. (plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
  3. (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  4. (obsolete) exception; reservation
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The newly proposed system will result in a saving of time, labor and space.”
      “Using this service also typically results in a saving when it comes to paying for other accountancy services at the year-end.”
      “He now overcame that profligacy in monied matters which had so much embarrassed his former years, and accumulated a significant saving out of the profits of his office.”
safeguard
  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.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The notion of checks and balances as a safeguard against tyranny is something that I think can have applicability all around the world.”
safe
  1. A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
  2. (slang) A condom.
  3. (dated) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Even if you break into the vault, you will not get inside the safe.”
savior
  1. (US) A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
  2. (medicine) A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He knew this, felt that someday he would find his savior and enlightener that would rescue his soul.”
      “The savior continued to recite his chant in front of every cell in the dungeon until everyone was free.”
      “God is perceived as the savior who can redeem the believer from his or her own sins.”
savepoint
  1. (video game) A designated spot where the player can save their progress.
  2. (databases) A point during a transaction at which changes are committed, and to which the user can roll back if necessary.
  3. Examples:
    1. “I died just before I reached the savepoint and had to repeat everything from my previous save.”
saviorism
  1. Belief in a savior.
  2. A policy that frames a group of people as needing to be saved.
saver
  1. One who saves.
  2. (slang) One who keeps savings more than usual.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The extraordinary figure of a man arose as the divinely sent avenger and saver of the persecuted.”
      “Hector was a saver of old books and refused to throw any away.”
      “I was a fastidious saver as a result of working in various jobs since I was fourteen.”
safener
  1. A chemical used in a herbicide to minimize injury to the crop as a result of the herbicide application.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If acetamide herbicides are used, grain sorghum seed must be pre-treated with a safener that protects it from injury caused by the acetamide herbicides.”
savedness
  1. (Christianity) The quality of being saved, or rescued from the consequences of sin.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Could a person ever lose this savedness? If so, how and at what point?”
savement
  1. (obsolete) The act of saving; salvation.
safe-keeping
  1. Alternative spelling of safekeeping
  2. Examples:
    1. “John will not be around much longer and so he must entrust the child to their safe-keeping.”
      “A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.”
      “Captain Wadsworth, I deliver this charter into your hands for safe-keeping.”
savioress
  1. (American) Alternative form of saviouress
saviour
  1. Britain and Canada spelling of savior
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Historically, New Zealand's voters have always wanted a change of government to make the State their saviour once more.”
      “A vivacious dynamo of energy and ambition, she would be the last person to seek the title of saviour of the film industry north of the Border.”
      “Somewhat less ridiculously, O'Neill claims that expecting Miller to be the saviour is preposterous.”
saviourism
  1. Alternative form of saviorism
saviouress
safeguarder
  1. One who safeguards.
safeness
  1. The property of being safe.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Certain weeds of the human bosom are prompt to flourish where safeness would seem to be guaranteed.”
      “Almost 9 in 10 older Americans claim that a product's environmental safeness bears on their decision to buy that product.”
      “Mr Beckworth raises an interesting objection, however:There are no truly safe assets, only ones with varying degrees of safeness.”
savableness
  1. Capability of being saved.
safeguarding
safeguarders
  1. plural of safeguarder
  2. Examples:
    1. “Women, positioned as safeguarders of tradition, are often the ones directing the design of homes and gardens.”
safekeepings
saviouresses
  1. plural of saviouress
safeguards
savepoints
  1. plural of savepoint
savioresses
  1. plural of savioress
saviours
  1. plural of saviour
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The band were supposed to be the saviours of rock and while the album was good, it was far from being the utter genius we had been promised.”
      “Y'know you're just muddling along in a better-than-average indie band and suddenly you're proclaimed the saviours of rock-and-roll.”
      “Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.”
safeners
  1. plural of safener
saviors
  1. plural of savior
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Josie had always heard that in some towns soldiers are treated like saviors during wartime and this proved it.”
      “But they know, in their bones so to speak, that there are no more Saladin-like saviors out there.”
      “After all if what I was hearing from my fellow St Lucian was true then a savior or saviors were needed to effect a rescue.”
savings
  1. plural of saving
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For four years, he worked as a door-to-door salesman selling knitwear from a suitcase before using his savings to open a wholesale warehouse.”
      “A month ago, the company gave staff a month to accept proposals which are aimed at achieving cost savings.”
      “The U.S. personal savings rate is practically nonexistent, and the government budget is awash in red ink.”
safeties
  1. plural of safety
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The safeties include a firing pin block, safety notch on the hammer and the de-cock lever.”
      “The main gun's normal firing circuit operates the firing mechanism of AIMTEST and all main gun safeties are operational.”
      “The Buccaneers brought linebackers, safeties and cornerbacks from every angle.”
savers
  1. plural of saver
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Our grandparents' generation was full of savers who ferreted away money during the Great Depression and the war.”
      “The pensions industry is well known for its insatiable appetite for savers ' money and its attempts to part us from it.”
      “Scottish institutions are failing savers again, this time when it comes to tax-exempt Tessas.”
safes
saves
  1. plural of save
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