safeguard
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- n a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
an insurance policy is a good safeguard - n a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
- v make safe
- v escort safely
- Abraham Lincoln left to Barack Obama not only an example to emulate but also the sentinels who will safeguard his life.
- But to safeguard against civil-liberty abuses, all records of clearly nontargeted Americans who receive emails or phone calls from foreign suspects would be, in effect, erased.
- For much of the latter half of the 20th century, it was the norm in Latin America to limit presidents to one term, a safeguard against the lifetime rule so many caudillos had .