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safekeeping

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
  • noun the storage of assets in a protected area
  • noun the responsibility of a guardian
  • noun 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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Examples

  • And as long as I am writing I am in safekeeping, then I have some idea of how life could go on, and when I get to the end of a text I don't know it anymore.

    Herta Müller - Interview 2009

  • University of Michigan goalie Al Montoya has a reputation as a big-game performer, and he has a gold medal in safekeeping as supporting evidence.

    USATODAY.com - Americans could go high 2004

  • Mr. Johnson's suit says he begged prison officials to move him to a unit called safekeeping, where white and Hispanic homosexuals, former gang members and convicted police officers lived.

    Archive 2004-10-01 2004

  • To the west, to the south, he offered up her name for safekeeping.

    Second Glance Jodi Picoult 2003

  • His driver, however, had possession of those remains and had been holding them in safekeeping awaiting directions from authorities.

    Morgan, Burke H. 1990

  • It was a letter that his mother, Esther, read, but she kept it folded in safekeeping for over 25 years until recently.

    Bennefeld, Steven H. 1967

  • Now they are in safekeeping at Ottawa for every one of us to consult and for those who follow us.

    Folk Songs of French Canada 1925

  • (XTS), which provides long-term safekeeping of reproductive cells and is the parent company of Xytex Cord Blood Bank; and Xytex Research, which works to improve reproductive tissue technologies.

    unknown title 2009

  • (XTS), which provides long-term safekeeping of reproductive cells and is the parent company of Xytex Cord Blood Bank; and Xytex Research, which works to improve reproductive tissue technologies.

    unknown title 2009

  • He waylays my son on his journey to London, dismisses the men from Wales who were loyal to him and to me, arrests my brother Anthony, my son Richard Grey, and our cousin Thomas Vaughan, and takes Edward into his so-called safekeeping.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

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