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noun
a large net rigged between a person, as a trapeze performer, and the ground as protection in a fall.
something that provides a margin of protection or security: the safety net of federal credit for financial institutions.
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Origin of safety net First recorded in 1945–50
OTHER WORDS FROM safety net safety-net, adjective
Words nearby safety net safety lamp ,
safety lintel ,
safety lock ,
safety man ,
safety match ,
safety net ,
safety pin ,
safety razor ,
safety squeeze ,
safety touch ,
safety valve
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How to use safety net in a sentence Your people will give it their best when they know a company is there as a safety net to support them through these really difficult times.
All these highlight the precarious nature of small scale farming and the need for better protections and safety net s to help mitigate the risk of trying to earn a livelihood.
All of this presents an opportunity to fix a fundamental part of our safety net , one that’s been ignored for decades, according to Newman of the Altarum Institute.
She’s on the front lines, doing her best to scrape by, with no social safety net to bail her out.
The good news is that we know how to design that sort of safety net .
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.
The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.
Not for the benefit of the harasser, of course, but for your own safety.
There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.
Specimens were easily collected in a mist net placed across the opening.
To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
These residents then killed the parish priest, and without arms fled for safety to the mountain ravines.
Juan de Messa lost his head, and ran down stairs, thinking that his safety lay there.
In short, in a few minutes, he might have the safety of his father, and the preservation of Europe in his hand.
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British Dictionary definitions for safety net
noun
a net used in a circus to catch high-wire and trapeze artistes if they fall
any means of protection from hardship or loss, such as insurance
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