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say it: SAYF-gahrd
safeguard is a noun and verb meaning "a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
“he put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution”
“an insurance policy is a good safeguard”
“we let our guard down”
a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for safeguard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.