Precaution
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against risks of accident.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To warn or caution beforehand. --Locke. To take precaution against. --John Dryden.
Example sentence: If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Safeguard
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something that serves as a guard or protection; a defensea safe-conduct, especially in time of war
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to protect, to keep safeto escort safely
Example sentence: One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.