Usually means: Protection against financial or personal hardship.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word safety net:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. safety net: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. safety net: Merriam-Webster
  3. safety net: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. safety net: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. safety net: Collins English Dictionary
  6. safety net: Vocabulary.com
  7. safety-net: Wordnik
  8. safety net: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. safety net: Wiktionary
  10. safety net: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. safety net: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. safety-net, safety net: Dictionary.com
  13. Safety net, The Safety Net: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. safety net: Rhymezone
  15. safety net: FreeDictionary.org
  16. safety net: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. safety net: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. safety net: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. safety net: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See safety_nets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (safety net)

noun:  A large net placed horizontally beneath performing aerialists such as trapeze artists or tightrope walkers, intended to catch a performer who falls and to protect him or her from harm.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Anything, such as a governmental program, that provides security against extreme disadvantage or misfortune.

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