safety

Definition

  • noun: freedom from harm or danger
  • noun: the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss
  • verb: to protect against failure, breakage, or accident
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: aegis, arm guard, assurance

Examples

  • The climbers were roped together for 'safety'. = The climbers were roped together 'for safety's sake'.

  • There is 'safety in numbers'. [=you are safer in a group of people than you are when you are alone]

  • His hobbies act as a 'safety valve', relieving some of the pressure he feels from his job.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) you shall nose him as you go up the stairs - Go seek him there - He will stay till you come Hamlet, this deed of thine, for thine especial safety... Which we do tender as we dearly grieve for that which thou hast done ...must send thee hence with fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself (..)
    2015 Hamlet