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safety net

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.

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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safety-net adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of safety net¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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"It gave us a safety net to just be ourselves, have fun, connect."

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Is it a story of how members of a family, protected by a social safety net from abject desperation, developed different ideas about how to relate to material circumstance?

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This bill will further gut the social safety net and give trillions more dollars to the very richest corporations and individuals.

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Republicans are known to favor the rich and everyone knows they are champing at the bit to cut the safety net programs.

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Booker argued that Democrats must remember the courage of their ancestors who fought for civil and voting rights and created the social safety net for the most vulnerable Americans as they try to fight Trumpism.

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