Synonyms for safety net
safe·ty net

Princeton's WordNet

1. safety netnoun

   a guarantee of professional or financial security

2. safety netnoun

   a large strong net to catch circus acrobats who fall or jump from a trapeze

Matched Categories

1. • Guarantee
   • Net

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How to use safety net in a sentence?

1. Kirsten Kemmerer:

   Research illustrates that having a strong safety net and a supportive and loving environment is especially important in fostering children's self-esteem.

2. Paul Ryan:

   This disappointing data, five years into an economic recovery, underscores the need for a new effort to modernize our country's safety net programs.

3. Shannon McConville:

   The undocumented rely largely on safety net service providers when they need it. Community clinics and hospital emergency departments are their main access to organized healthcare.

4. Gordon Woo:

   Essentially it's providing a safety net for the whole world. It's nothing short of that.

5. Jason Houle:

   Therefore, if we want to reduce the financial devastation associated with illness, a sensible way to do it would be to strengthen the social safety net and reduce the cost of health care, the ACA tries to do both of these things, though we would need more evidence to know whether policies like the ACA can break the link between becoming ill and foreclosure.