Definitions for safeties

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safeties safe·ty

Spelling: [seyf-tee]

IPA: /ˈseɪf ti/

Safeties is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in safeties (aeefisst).

Definitions for safeties

noun

1. the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
2. the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss.
3. a contrivance or device to prevent injury or avert danger.
4. Also called lock, safety catch, safety lock. a locking or cutoff device that prevents a gun from being fired accidentally.
5. the action of keeping safe.
6. Football. an act or play in which a player on the offensive team is tackled in his own end zone or downs the ball there, or in which the ball goes out of bounds on a fumble, having last been in bounds in or over the end zone and having last been in the possession of an offensive player. Compare touchback. an award of two points to the opposing team on this play. Also called safety man. a player on defense who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage.
7. Baseball. a base hit, especially a one-base hit.
8. Slang. a condom.
9. Obsolete. close confinement or custody.

Origin of safeties

1250-1300; Middle English sauvete Middle French. See safe, -ty²

Examples for safeties

They looked after the safety of the roads and the waterways.

But can the safety of the state be secured by merely excluding the vicious poor?

Not for the benefit of the harasser, of course, but for your own safety.

Before the Maidan revolution, Russian political refugees living in Kiev were worried about their safety.

We are now in safety again, and to-morrow being Sunday we will rest.

Helicopters lifted pregnant women and children to safety first.

This government obligation is limited by practical considerations of safety and security.

These only becloud, they do not help to point the way of safety and honor.

There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.

Then there was another stream to cross, which was also passed in safety.