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| Main Entry: |
preservation
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
| Synonyms: | canning, care, conservancy, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, refrigeration, safeguard, safeguarding, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, sustentation, tanning, upholding, ward |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
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| Main Entry: | continuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition; maintenance |
| Synonyms: | assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity |
| Antonyms: | cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | ecology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environmental science |
| Synonyms: | bionomics, conservation, preservation |
| Notes: | environment emerged linked with nature, implying 'natural' (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | protection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care, guardianship |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armament, armor, assurance, barrier, buffer, bulwark, camouflage, certainty, charge, conservation, cover, custody, defense, fix, guard, guarding, insurance, invulnerability, preservation, protecting, reassurance, refuge, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, screen, security, self-defense, shelter, shield, stability, strength, surety, tutelage, umbrella*, ward, wardship |
| Antonyms: | attack, harm, hurt, injury, threat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | safekeeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | aegis, assurance, care, certainty, cover, custody, guardianship, guarding, insurance, preservation, protecting, reassurance, refuge, safeguard, security, shelter, supervision, trust |
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
| Synonyms: | conservancy, conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, extrication, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preserval, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | endangerment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste |
| Main Entry: | security |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | safety, protection |
| Synonyms: | aegis, agreement, armament, armor, asylum, bail, bond, care, collateral, compact, contract, covenant, cover, custody, defense, earnest, freedom, guarantee, guard, immunity, insurance, pact, pawn, pledge, precaution, preservation, promise, redemption, refuge, retreat, safeguard, safekeeping, safeness, safety measure, salvation, sanctuary, shelter, shield, surety, surveillance, token, ward, warrant |
| Antonyms: | danger, insecurity, peril, trouble |
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