for safekeeping
idiom
: in order to be kept from danger or harm
I gave her my jewelry for safekeeping while I was away.
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During the Los Angeles wildfires, a few insurance carriers came to clients’ aid, retrieving art for safekeeping and sending private firefighters to protect homes by dampening them to prevent flying sparks from starting a blaze, says Jeff Newman of the brokerage Hub International.
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Carol Kino, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2025
Ask that all passports for your children be turned over to you for safekeeping.
—Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Sweetness and sustenance — pleasure and wealth, metaphorically speaking — are being put away for safekeeping.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The regalia had been hidden for 85 years—since it was stowed for safekeeping beneath the Vilnius Cathedral in southeastern Lithuania.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Carol Kino, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2025
Ask that all passports for your children be turned over to you for safekeeping.
—Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
Sweetness and sustenance — pleasure and wealth, metaphorically speaking — are being put away for safekeeping.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The regalia had been hidden for 85 years—since it was stowed for safekeeping beneath the Vilnius Cathedral in southeastern Lithuania.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for for safekeeping
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“For safekeeping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for%20safekeeping. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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