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What does safekeeping mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word safekeeping? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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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Before heading out to the long grass some years ago, she left various treasures at her bank for safekeeping.
They include risks associated with securities lending, commingling of assets and safekeeping.
He also suggested that to prevent such a theft we should have deposited the helmets with him for safekeeping.
He or she gives the patient a hospital gown and sees that all clothing and jewelry is given to a family member or sent to a service center for safekeeping.
It connotes something deposited for safekeeping, like currency in a safe-deposit box.
They are placed at the disposal of the skiers, along the ski runs and skiers can also leave their own equipment for safekeeping there.

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