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 Translation for 'safe keeping' from English to French
NOUN   safe-keeping | -
dr.
garde {f} à vue <GAV>
safe keeping
Partial Matches
gardant {adj} {pres-p}keeping
conservant {adj} {pres-p}keeping
agr.
apiculture {f}
bee-keeping
dans la lignée {adv}in keeping
agr.alim.cuis.
durée {f} de conservation
keeping properties {pl}
dans la lignée de qc. {adv}in keeping with sth.
éloignement {m} de qc.keeping away from sth.
Comment va la santé ?How are you keeping?
équivaloir à qc.to be in keeping with sth.
s'harmoniser avec qc. [environ]to be in keeping with sth. [surroundings­]
meub.
en accord avec le reste du mobilier {adv}
in keeping with the rest of the furniture
coffre {m}safe
sauf-conduit {m} [aussi : saufconduit]safe-conduct
distance {f} de sécuritésafe distance
refuge {m}safe house
garanti lave-vaisselle {adj}dishwasher-safe
résistant au lave-vaisselle {adj}dishwasher-safe
combinaison {f} de coffre-fortsafe combination
fin.
de tout repos {adj}
absolutely safe
parfaitement sûr {adj}perfectly safe
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Usage Examples English
  • After President General Hargrave died in 1988, all his papers and other Parent Body material were turned over to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio, for safe-keeping.
  • When the French Revolutionary army approached Nuremberg in the spring of 1796, the city councilors decided to remove the "Reichskleinodien" to Vienna for safe keeping.
  • The word Skat is a Tarok term derived from the Latin word "scarto, scartare", which means to discard or reject, and its derivative "scatola", a box or a place for safe-keeping.
  • Although the parish records from before 1900 were moved to Lincoln in 1988 for safe keeping, the parish library remains one of the ten biggest in England today.
  • The village pump remained in use until December 1914, while the handle was removed in 1921 by the local council for safe keeping but was never returned.

  • It was stored in the Friedrichshain flak tower in Berlin for safe keeping, but in May 1945, the tower was set on fire and most of the objects inside were destroyed.
  • During World War II, the Wills Memorial was bombed, destroying the Great Hall and the organ it housed, along with 7,000 books removed from King's College London for safe keeping.
  • However, when Jonas refuses to hand up his deed, Stiles hunts him down and shoots him, but not before Jonas hands the deed off to Daniel for safe keeping.
  • 85 Squadron remained at West Raynham until it was disbanded on 10 July 1991, with the Standard bearing the squadrons battle honours placed in the safe keeping of Ely Cathedral.
  • It was stored in a flak tower in Berlin for safe keeping, but in May 1945, the tower was set on fire and most of the objects inside were destroyed.

  • After Excalibur had been attacked by opposing sorcerers trying to acquire the Soulsword of the deceased Illyana Rasputin, Amanda convinced Shadowcat to give her Magik's Soul Sword for safe-keeping.
  • Samantha entrusted her genetic supplies to Patina for safe-keeping during her expedition to Mars.
  • The 3rd Duke lent the original vase to Josiah Wedgwood and then to the British Museum for safe-keeping, by which point it was known as the "Portland Vase".
  • On 22 March after escorting PQ12 to Murmansk "Kenya" was loaded with 10 tonnes of Russian bullion and took it back to Britain for safe keeping.
  • precisely in time to light the last eight Hanukah candles" and an iron door made under the holy ark for safe-keeping of the candlestick.

  • This bolt has survived almost unscathed over the years. Safe keeping this historic object is a sacred trust currently carried out by Brother Joseph Capek of "Phi chapter".
  • The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried (Nag Hammadi library) or stored in dry caves (Dead Sea scrolls).
  • One entire wall of the Merzbarn was removed to the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle for safe keeping. The shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near Ambleside.
  • Lalmohan Ganguly) sneaks into a warehouse in 'Patan' (Nepal) to discover vast collection of smuggled narcotics (book "Jato Kando Kathmandute"); finds out the stabbed body of a missing man in the woods (book "Darjeeling Jomjomat"); replaces the pink pearl with a fake for safe-keeping (book "Golapi Mukta Rahasya").
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