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Plural of safety

regular plural

The plural of safety is safeties.

Forms of safety

Singularsafety /ˈseɪfti/
Pluralsafeties
Countablecountable and uncountable

Safeties in a sentence

  • He had thus far given up only two safeties.1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Time Life Books, published 1966, page 225

Meaning of safety

  1. noun The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
  2. noun A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
  3. noun Preservation from escape; close custody.

Full definition of safety

Questions about the plural of safety

What is the plural of safety?
The plural of safety is safeties.
Is safety countable?
Safety is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safety (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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