different between safeguard vs countermeasure

English

Etymology

From Middle English savegard, from Middle French sauvegarde, from Old French salve garde, sauve garde, reconstructed as safe +? guard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?f???(?)d/

Noun

safeguard (plural safeguards)

1. Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.

2. One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
   • 1726, George Granville, To the King, in the First Year of His Majesty’s Reign

     Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne.

3. A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
4. (obsolete) The monitor lizard.
   • 1844, The Animal Kingdom

     The same idea is entertained of the Safeguard in America, as of the Monitor in Africa, and other parts of the Old World, […]

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Verb

safeguard (third-person singular simple present safeguards, present participle safeguarding, simple past and past participle safeguarded)

1. To protect, to keep safe.
2. To escort safely.

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Anagrams

• saufgarde

English

Etymology

counter- +? measure

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

countermeasure (plural countermeasures)

1. Any action taken to counteract or correct another.

   We fear that this will be the beginning of a negative development of measures and countermeasures, at the end of which there will be no winner CNN-money, Why President Trump's obsession with German cars is misplaced, Jackie Wattles and Charles Riley, May 31, 2018

2. (military, chiefly in the plural) Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.

Derived terms

• anticountermeasure
• countercountermeasure

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