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Collocations for safeguard - noun

ADJECTIVE

adequate, effective, proper, sufficient
Does the procedure provide adequate safeguards against corruption?
appropriate, necessary
added, additional, extra, further
inadequate
environmental, nuclear
constitutional, democratic, legal, procedural

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VERB + safeguard

implement, introduce (BrE), put in place
provide
provide sb with
build in, build into sth, include
Appropriate safeguards would have to be built into the procedures to avoid abuses.

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safeguard + VERB

be in place
The elections will go ahead, provided that adequate safeguards are in place.

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PREPOSITION

safeguard against
The credit agreement includes a safeguard against overcharging.
safeguard for
Any agreement must provide safeguards for minority rights.

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Collocations for safeguard - verb

ADVERB

adequately, properly
This legislation does not adequately safeguard the rights of consumers.

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VERB + safeguard

be necessary to
help (to)
be designed to, be intended to, be meant to, be supposed to
take steps to

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PREPOSITION

against
We must take steps to safeguard our environment against these threats.
from
Try to safeguard the young plants from frost.

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Safeguard is used with these nouns as the object:
environment, heritage, information, integrity, interest, job, liberty, privacy, right, viability

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