safeguarding

The word “safeguarding” has 3 syllables: safe-guard-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈseɪfɡɑrdɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for safeguarding?

In the thesaurus, “safeguarding” has 140 synonyms and 52 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for safeguarding along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for safeguarding

  • alert
  • arresting
  • attention
  • averting
  • balking
  • battling
  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • canning
  • care
  • careful
  • cautious
  • checking
  • cherishing
  • conservancy
  • conservation
  • conservational
  • conservative
  • conservatory
  • conserving
  • contending
  • control
  • convoying
  • coping with
  • covering
  • curing
  • custodial
  • custody
  • defended
  • defending
  • defense
  • defensive
  • deliverance
  • directing
  • economy
  • emergency
  • escorting
  • evaporation
  • expectant
  • extrication
  • fencing
  • fending
  • fighting
  • foiling
  • forestalling
  • forfending
  • freezing
  • frustrating
  • garrison
  • governing
  • guard
  • guarded
  • guardian
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • impregnable
  • in opposition
  • insulating
  • interrupting
  • inviolable
  • invulnerable
  • jealous
  • keeping
  • lookout
  • maintenance
  • management
  • managing
  • opposing
  • palisading
  • patroler
  • perpetuation
  • picketing
  • pickling
  • policing
  • possessive
  • precautionary
  • preserval
  • preservation
  • preservative
  • preserving
  • preventing
  • preventive
  • protected
  • protecting
  • protection
  • protective
  • ransom
  • recovery
  • redemption
  • refrigeration
  • rescue
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • rounds
  • safe
  • safeguard
  • safekeeping
  • safety
  • salvation
  • saving
  • scouting
  • screening
  • secure
  • securing
  • security
  • sentinel
  • sheltered
  • sheltering
  • shield
  • shielded
  • shielding
  • snug
  • spy
  • standing up for
  • stewardship
  • storage
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • support
  • sustentation
  • tanning
  • thwarting
  • unassailable
  • unconquerable
  • upholding
  • upkeep
  • uptight
  • vigilance
  • vigilant
  • walling
  • ward
  • warding
  • warding off
  • warm
  • warring
  • watch
  • watchful
  • watching
  • watchperson
  • withstanding

Antonyms for safeguarding

  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • attacking
  • besetting
  • besieging
  • bombarding
  • capitulating
  • careless
  • caving
  • danger
  • dangerous
  • destruction
  • endangerment
  • harm
  • harmful
  • hazardous
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • ignorance
  • inattentive
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insecure
  • menacing
  • minatory
  • neglect
  • negligence
  • negligent
  • overrunning
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • precarious
  • risky
  • ruin
  • spending
  • squandering
  • storming
  • submitting
  • threatening
  • treacherous
  • uncertain
  • undefended
  • undefensive
  • unguarded
  • unprotected
  • unprotective
  • unsafe
  • unwary
  • unwatchful
  • vulnerable
  • waste
  • yielding

Meanings of safeguarding

  • verb
    1. To protect, to keep safe.
    2. To escort safely.
  • noun
    1. Protection.

Example Sentences

  • The organization prioritizes safeguarding the well-being of its employees.
  • Safeguarding children is a shared responsibility among educators, parents, and communities.
  • The government implemented strict policies aimed at safeguarding national security.
  • Companies invest in advanced cybersecurity measures for safeguarding sensitive data.
  • The environmental agency focuses on safeguarding natural habitats and wildlife.

On this page you'll find 192 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to safeguarding, such as: alert, arresting, assailing, assaulting, attacking, attention, averting.

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keep

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  • tend
  • trade in
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  • victual
  • wall
  • war
  • ward
  • warehouse
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  • watch over
  • withhold
  • withstand

keeping

  • abidance
  • abiding by
  • accession
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • administering
  • administrating
  • agreement
  • answering
  • arresting
  • attendance
  • attention
  • authority
  • averting
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  • blessing
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  • bridling
  • bringing about
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  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • care
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  • charge
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  • commemorating
  • committing
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  • completing
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  • conducting
  • confiscation
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  • custodianship
  • custody
  • defending
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  • detaining
  • directing
  • discharging
  • dominion
  • effecting
  • enjoying
  • enjoyment
  • estate
  • executing
  • fencing
  • fending
  • feting
  • fettle
  • fighting
  • filing
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • financing
  • finishing
  • footing
  • forfending
  • form
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • gagging
  • garaging
  • governing
  • governorship
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • handling
  • hands
  • hangaring
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • harmony
  • having
  • health
  • heed
  • hindering
  • holding
  • holding back
  • holding on to
  • honor
  • honoring
  • housing
  • hugging
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • interrupting
  • kilter
  • lauding
  • leading
  • maintaining
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • management
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  • mastery
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • memorializing
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  • mincing
  • minding
  • muffling
  • muzzling
  • nick
  • notice
  • obedience
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  • obstructing
  • operating
  • opposing
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  • ownership
  • owning
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  • picture
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  • power
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  • pulling in
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  • repositing
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  • repressing
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  • staking
  • standing
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  • stifling
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  • surrender
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  • uniformity
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  • walling
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keeping up

  • abiding
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  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • screening
  • servicing
  • shielding
  • staying
  • sticking around
  • stretching
  • supporting
  • surviving
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  • tarrying
  • vie

safe

  • advertent
  • alert
  • all right
  • alright
  • anodyne
  • attentive
  • attested
  • authenticated
  • awake
  • bedrock
  • benign
  • benignant
  • blameless
  • box
  • buttoned-up
  • caddy
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • calculable
  • calculating
  • canny
  • careful
  • case
  • casket
  • cautious
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  • checked
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  • chest
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  • clear
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  • competent
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  • decontaminated
  • defended
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  • gentle
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  • healthful
  • healthy
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  • home free
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  • hypercautious
  • impeccable
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  • in safety
  • incontestable
  • incontrovertible
  • indisputable
  • indubitable
  • inerrant
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  • innocent
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  • innoxious
  • inoffensive
  • intact
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  • irrefutable
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  • lockbox
  • locker
  • loyal
  • maintained
  • mild
  • neutralized
  • noncontroversial
  • noncorrosive
  • nondestructive
  • nonfatal
  • noninfectious
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  • nonpoisonous
  • nonpolluting
  • nonthreatening
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • observant
  • okay
  • on safe side
  • out of danger
  • painless
  • politically correct
  • positive
  • preserved
  • protected
  • protecting
  • proven
  • provident
  • prudent
  • pure
  • realistic
  • regardful
  • reliable
  • responsible
  • risk-free
  • riskless
  • safe and sound
  • safe-deposit box
  • safeguarded
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  • salubrious
  • scatheless
  • secure
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  • shielded
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  • shrewd
  • sincere
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  • sitting pretty
  • slow
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  • storeroom
  • strong
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  • sure
  • tame
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  • treasury
  • tried
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  • trunk
  • trustable
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  • ultracareful
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  • unadventurous
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  • undisputed
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  • valid
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  • vault
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  • vigilant
  • vindicated
  • wary
  • watched
  • watchful
  • well
  • white
  • whole
  • wholesome

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