Usually means: Protection against potential harm, loss.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word safeguard:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. safeguard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. safeguard: Merriam-Webster
  3. safeguard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. safeguard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. safeguard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. safeguard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Safeguard, safeguard: Wordnik
  8. safeguard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. safeguard: Wiktionary
  10. safeguard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. safeguard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. safeguard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. safeguard: Dictionary.com
  14. safeguard (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. safeguard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Safeguard (disambiguation), Safeguard (soap), Safeguard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Safeguard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. safeguard: Rhymezone
  19. safeguard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. safeguard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. safeguard: FreeDictionary.org
  22. safeguard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. safeguard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. safeguard: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. safeguard: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. safeguard: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. safeguard: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAFEGUARD: Acronym Finder
  2. safeguard: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. safeguard: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See safeguarded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
noun:  One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
noun:  A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
noun:  (obsolete) The monitor lizard.
verb:  To protect, to keep safe.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, by extension) To implement safeguarding.
verb:  To escort safely.

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