safeguard

safeguard
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ adequate, effective, proper, sufficient
▪

Does the procedure provide adequate safeguards against corruption?

▪ appropriate, necessary
▪ added, additional, extra, further
▪ inadequate
▪ environmental, nuclear
▪ constitutional, democratic, legal, procedural
VERB + SAFEGUARD
▪ implement, introduce (BrE), put in place
▪ provide
▪ provide sb with
▪ build in, build into sth, include
▪

Appropriate safeguards would have to be built into the procedures to avoid abuses.

SAFEGUARD + VERB
▪ be in place
▪

The elections will go ahead, provided that adequate safeguards are in place.

PREPOSITION
▪ safeguard against
▪

The credit agreement includes a safeguard against overcharging.

▪ safeguard for
▪

Any agreement must provide safeguards for minority rights.

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verb
ADVERB
▪ adequately, properly
▪

This legislation does not adequately safeguard the rights of consumers.

VERB + SAFEGUARD
▪ be necessary to
▪ help (to)
▪ be designed to, be intended to, be meant to, be supposed to
▪ take steps to
PREPOSITION
▪ against
▪

We must take steps to safeguard our environment against these threats.

▪ from
▪

Try to safeguard the young plants from frost.

Safeguard is used with these nouns as the object: ↑environment, ↑heritage, ↑information, ↑integrity, ↑interest, ↑job, ↑liberty, ↑privacy, ↑right, ↑viability

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