Meaning of safe haven in English
(Definition of safe haven from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
safe haven | American Dictionary
safe haven | Business English
FINANCE
an investment that keeps its value, especially when other investments are falling or may fall in value:
safe-haven
adjective [ before noun ]
The Swiss franc has traditionally had a role as a safe-haven currency.
Examples of safe haven
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They had refused to leave home for the safe haven of a shelter, to the dismay of media pundits and authorities.
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The idea of the region as a safe haven for the generation of ideas also underlies initiatives for regional programmes with civil society organisations.
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The museum was regarded, and still partly is, as a safe haven for past material culture.
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Here, the fear-of-floating hypothesis says a pegging strategy is sought because of safe haven fears or the country's historical fears of an appreciating exchange rate.
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To ensure that half of the untreated area provides a safe haven, the total untreated block should be about 5 km2, or 25 daily displacements wide.
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Let us therefore steer it to a safe haven, so to speak, and let us do so rapidly and surely.
Like his safe haven policy it is a little late—plagiarism yet again.
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However, these overcrowded islands simply cannot become some kind of safe haven for the world's opposition parties.
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The safe haven concept is best, and we must do all that we can to encourage it.
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After all, why have they come here if they do not believe that it is a safe haven?
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They therefore think that this is a safe haven in which to put their money.
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They made it to a safe haven in a foreign land.
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We have rightly prided ourselves on the fact that we are a safe haven for those who flee persecution, war or religious or political intolerance.
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We are also determined to remain a safe haven for people who genuinely seek asylum and are fleeing persecution from abroad.
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They hope that it will be a safe haven for their industrial lame ducks and white elephants.
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