Usually means: Protection from harm or danger.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word safety:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. safety: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. safety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. safety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. safety: Collins English Dictionary
  5. safety: Vocabulary.com
  6. Safety, safety: Wordnik
  7. safety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. safety: Wiktionary
  9. safety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. safety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. safety: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SAFETY: Dictionary.com
  13. safety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. safety: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Safety (American football), Safety (American football position), Safety (American football score), Safety (EP), Safety (album), Safety (disambiguation), Safety (distributed computing), Safety (film), Safety (firearm), Safety (firearms), Safety (football position), Safety (football score), Safety (gridiron football position), Safety (gridiron football score), Safety (upcoming film), Safety: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Safety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. safety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. safety: Rhymezone
  19. safety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. safety: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. safety: Free Dictionary
  22. safety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. safety: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. safety: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. safety: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. safety: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. safety: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Safety: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Safety: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. safety: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. SAFETY: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. safety: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. safety: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Safety: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See safetied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
noun:  (mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
noun:  Preservation from escape; close custody.
noun:  (sports)
noun:  (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
noun:  (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
noun:  (baseball) A safety squeeze.
noun:  (snooker) A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
noun:  (dated) A safety bicycle.
verb:  (transitive) To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
verb:  to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing

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