Safekeeping

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
  • n. the storage of assets in a protected area
  • n. the responsibility of a guardian
  • n. not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
  • Word Usage
    "And as long as I am writing I am in safekeeping, then I have some idea of how life could go on, and when I get to the end of a text I don't know it anymore."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    obligation    duty    responsibility   
    Hyponym
    hands    custody   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    care    custody    card   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    perople    one!'    sustentation    himself    12d