sauvegarde

See also: sauvegardé

English

Etymology

French

Noun

sauvegarde (plural sauvegardes)

1. (obsolete) A safeguard.
2. (archaic) The monitor lizard.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sov.ɡaʁd/

• Audio

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Noun

sauvegarde f (plural sauvegardes)

1. protection, safeguard (protection granted by any authority)

   Il est en la protection et sauvegarde du roi. ― It is in the protection and safeguard of the king.

   Il s’est placé sous la sauvegarde de la justice ― He placed himself under the safeguard of justice.

   • 1906 April, Michel Zevaco, Le Capitan [The Captain] (Le Livre populaire; Number 31), Librairie Arthème Fayard, published 1907:

     De tous ces événements qui lui étaient arrivés, ce qui lui semblait surnager, c’était plus que jamais la nécessité urgente de se mettre sous la sauvegarde d’un tout-puissant protecteur comme Concini, maréchal d’Ancre.

     Of all these events that had happened to him, what seemed to stay afloat to him was more than ever the urgent need to put himself under the protection of an all-powerful protector like Concini, Marshal of Ancre.

2. certificate, protection (of the writing by which this protection is granted)
3. (figuratively) protection, safeguard (a person or thing that serves as a guarantee and defence against a danger that one fears)

   Venez avec moi ; comme je redoute sa colère, vous serez ma sauvegarde. ― Come with me; since I fear their wrath, you will be my protection.

   Son obscurité lui servit de sauvegarde contre la proscription. ― His obscurity served him as a safeguard against the proscription.

4. (computer science) back-up, backup, saving (action of keeping important information safe)

   Il a fait la sauvegarde de ses données comptables récentes. ― He made the backup of his recent accounting data.

5. (computer science) back-up, backup (the secure data themselves)

   Son ordinateur est tombé en panne, mais il a pu recharger sur le réseau la sauvegarde qu’il avait faite le mois dernier. ― His computer has broken down, but he was able to reload the backup that he had made last month on the network.

6. (bookbinding) protection sheet, waste sheet (strip of paper made to protect the endpapers of books during the bookbinding)
7. (navy) chain, safety line, tether (rope for holding something)

   Sauvegarde de gouvernail ― Rudder chain (literally, “Rudder safety line”)

   Sauvegarde d’aviron ― Oar safety line

8. (astronautics) range safety, safety (all the measures provided during the launch campaign or atmospheric re-entry of a spacecraft in order to ensure the safety of people and goods in terrestrial, maritime and airspaces)
9. (astronautics) range safety, safety (by extension) (result of the measures of range safety)

See also

• restauration

Verb

sauvegarde

1. inflection of sauvegarder:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “sauvegarde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.