Damage vs Safekeeping - What's the difference?
damage | safekeeping |
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
the storage of assets in a protected area
the responsibility of a guardian
(US) 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.
As nouns the difference between damage and safekeeping
is that damage is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact while safekeeping is the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft.As a verb damage
is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.