Safekeeping vs Preventive - What's the difference?
safekeeping | preventive | Related terms |
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.
Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Carried out to deter military aggression.
Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Going before; preceding.
* Cudworth
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
* 1856 , Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen
(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
A contraceptive, especially a condom.
preventive]
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Safekeeping is a related term of preventive.
As a noun safekeeping
is the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft.As an adjective preventive is
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(-)preventive
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(en adjective)- Physic is either curative or preventive .
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Noun
(en noun)- Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms
