safeguard

safeguard
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noun
ADJECTIVE
adequate, effective, proper, sufficient

Does the procedure provide adequate safeguards against corruption?

appropriate, necessary
added, additional, extra, further
inadequate
environmental, nuclear
constitutional, democratic, legal, procedural
VERB + SAFEGUARD
implement, introduce (BrE), put in place
provide
provide sb with
build in, build into sth, include

Appropriate safeguards would have to be built into the procedures to avoid abuses.

SAFEGUARD + VERB
be in place

The elections will go ahead, provided that adequate safeguards are in place.

PREPOSITION
safeguard against

The credit agreement includes a safeguard against overcharging.

safeguard for

Any agreement must provide safeguards for minority rights.

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verb
ADVERB
adequately, properly

This legislation does not adequately safeguard the rights of consumers.

VERB + SAFEGUARD
be necessary to
help (to)
be designed to, be intended to, be meant to, be supposed to
take steps to
PREPOSITION
against

We must take steps to safeguard our environment against these threats.

from

Try to safeguard the young plants from frost.

Safeguard is used with these nouns as the object: ↑environment, ↑heritage, ↑information, ↑integrity, ↑interest, ↑job, ↑liberty, ↑privacy, ↑right, ↑viability

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