| Main Entry: | safekeeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
Synonyms: |
aegis, assurance, care, certainty, cover, custody, guardianship, guarding, insurance, preservation, protecting, reassurance, refuge, safeguard, security, shelter, supervision, trust |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
Synonyms: |
administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment; restriction |
Synonyms: |
bonds, bounding, bounds, check, circumscription, coercion, constrainment, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, delimitation, detention, immuration, incarceration, internment, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, trammels |
Antonyms: |
freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
Synonyms: |
attention, care, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
Antonyms: |
destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
Synonyms: |
aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
Synonyms: |
canning, care, conservancy, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, refrigeration, safeguard, safeguarding, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, sustentation, tanning, upholding, ward |
Antonyms: |
destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | protection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, guardianship |
Synonyms: |
aegis, armament, armor, assurance, barrier, buffer, bulwark, camouflage, certainty, charge, conservation, cover, custody, defense, fix, guard, guarding, insurance, invulnerability, preservation, protecting, reassurance, refuge, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, screen, security, self-defense, shelter, shield, stability, strength, surety, tutelage, umbrella*, ward, wardship |
Antonyms: |
attack, harm, hurt, injury, threat |
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
Synonyms: |
conservancy, conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, extrication, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preserval, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, sustentation |
Antonyms: |
endangerment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste |
| Main Entry: | security |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | safety, protection |
Synonyms: |
aegis, agreement, armament, armor, asylum, bail, bond, care, collateral, compact, contract, covenant, cover, custody, defense, earnest, freedom, guarantee, guard, immunity, insurance, pact, pawn, pledge, precaution, preservation, promise, redemption, refuge, retreat, safeguard, safekeeping, safeness, safety measure, salvation, sanctuary, shelter, shield, surety, surveillance, token, ward, warrant |
Antonyms: |
danger, insecurity, peril, trouble |