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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are safekeeping" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone is responsible for keeping something safe or secure.
Example: "The documents are safekeeping in a secure location until the meeting."
Alternatives: "are keeping safe" or "are in safe custody."
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are safekeeping
noun
The act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
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We, and the employees and retirees to whom we are responsible, need to know when the funds we are safekeeping for their retirement are being used to bankroll a political campaign, and not for the benefit of shareholders.
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Our data reveals a new miRNA pathway that is safekeeping the specific genetic program of differentiated and matrix-producing tracheal chondrocytes from acquisition of unwanted signals.
Mr. Burrell walked free on the 12th day of his trial -- and the eve of his own testimony -- following word from the queen that he had told her he was safekeeping items from the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales, that the prosecution accused him of stealing.
Anyone who has failed to keep track of a winning lottery ticket for all of 12 months may want to consider the efforts of 39 bondholders who have been safekeeping valuable, tissue-thin, New York City securities since shortly after the Civil War.
The defendant further stated that he inadvertently left the gun that he was safekeeping from the previous days". Webb may be pleased to know that, according to the complaint, "the weapon was test fired and is operable". And how does Webb feel about the whole thing?
Banks and savings and loans lost millions when it was discovered that the government securities firms of E.S.M. in Florida and Bevill, Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp. didn't have the securities they supposedly were safekeeping for their investors in repo deals.
The random allocation sequence will be safekeeping by a specified project manager, who is irrelevant with the recruitment, intervention, assessment and statistic analysis.
A novel of which Mr. Mcdonald was especially fond was "Safekeeping" (1985), about the misadventures in New York of an English duke's 8-year-old son.
Because of concern over the building's deterioration, the fund, without the state's permission, lent four paintings worth an estimated $1 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1980's for safekeeping.
Two small packets, tied with twine and sealed with red wax, "appear to be filled with paper" and have been put in safekeeping "until they can be opened and studied in a proper conservation laboratory," a report noted.
For more than two decades Herzog's heirs have been petitioning the Hungarian government to return more than $100 million worth of art, most of which has been hanging in Hungarian museums, where it was left for safekeeping during World War II or was placed after it was recovered from the Nazis and brought back to Hungary.
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