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Safekeeping   /sˈeɪfkˈipɪŋ/   Listen
Safekeeping

noun
1.
The responsibility of a guardian or keeper.  Synonyms: guardianship, keeping.






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"Safekeeping" Quotes from Famous Books



... book would have to be placed in safekeeping where it could be immediately produced upon demand. He frowned. That was ...
— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

... rest, fellows. That despised Samaritan saw the thing clean through. He did not leave "his neighbour" until he had spent a night with him at the inn and had an understanding next morning with the innkeeper as to his safekeeping until able ...
— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... Dunmore worried over the gunpowder in the Williamsburg magazine. On the night of April 20-21 marines from the H.M.S. Magdalene stealthily carried away the powder. Dunmore coyly suggested he had ordered the powder removed for safekeeping to prevent a rumored slave insurrection. Although his lame excuse fooled no one, quiet returned to Williamsburg after a brief flurry of excitement and marches to the Governor's Palace ...
— The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 • Virginia State Dept. of Education

... October 10, 1810. She was the youngest of ten children of a ship master, who made many voyages to the East Indies and to European ports. In a letter written in 1884, Mrs Downey said of herself: "My father, an East India sea captain, made frequent and long voyages. For safekeeping and improvement he sent me to Haverhill, bearing a letter of introduction from Captain William Story to the family of Judge Bartley. They passed me over to Mr. Jonathan K. Smith, and Mrs. Smith gave me as a roommate her only daughter, ...
— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford



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