Definitions for safety

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safety safe·ty

Spelling: [seyf-tee]

IPA: /ˈseɪf ti/

Safety is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in safety (aefsty).

Definitions for safety

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 safety

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

Examples for safety

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

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

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

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

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

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

Helicopters lifted pregnant women and children to safety first.

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.

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