Word.ws English Dictionary

safeguardings

safeguardings is the plural of safeguarding.

Meaning of safeguarding

Noun

safeguarding (countable and uncountable, plural safeguardings)

  1. Synonym of protection.
    • The necessity of contractual safeguardings in PPPs was emphasized by most interview partners.2018, Thomas S. Konrad, Management Control in Public-Private Partnerships, page 305
    Synonyms:
    protection
  2. (Ireland, UK, formal) Policies and actions for the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
    • We cannot have a culture that sees safeguarding as a separate add-on. It needs to be part of our DNA, as an expression of our love for one another and our commitment to the Gospel.2022 October, Past Cases Review 2, National Safeguarding Steering Group of the Church of England, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024, page 4

Questions about safeguardings

What is safeguardings the plural of?
Safeguardings is the plural of safeguarding.

Words near safeguardings in the dictionary

  1. safeguardable
  2. safeguarded
  3. safeguarder
  4. safeguarders
  5. safeguarding
  6. safeguardings
  7. safeguards
  8. safehaven
  9. safehavens
  10. safehold
  11. safeholds

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: safeguardings (page history and authors); safeguarding (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “safeguardings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/safeguardings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.