belt-and-suspenders
adjective
US
: involving or employing multiple methods or procedures to achieve a desired result especially out of caution or fear of failure
A small, personal estate-planning company accurately applied belt-and-suspenders thinking when it created an instructional service for insurance salesmen to teach them how to "push" its financial plans.—
Mack Hanan, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1976
Mack Hanan, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1976These are belt-and-suspenders kinds of investments.—Thomas P. Murphy, Forbes, 25 Dec. 1978
Thomas P. Murphy, Forbes, 25 Dec. 1978We worked out a belt-and-suspenders conservative way of protecting the well that I think in the final analysis would have satisfied everyone.—J. Daniel Lugosch, Business Worcester, 18 Apr. 1988
J. Daniel Lugosch, Business Worcester, 18 Apr. 1988If you're smart, you will first park your winnings in a money market mutual fund or a money market account at a bank … . (If you're the belt-and-suspenders type, you could open multiple accounts to get all your money covered.)—New York Times, 6 Feb. 2000
New York Times, 6 Feb. 2000Dictionary Entries Near belt-and-suspenders
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“Belt-and-suspenders.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belt-and-suspenders. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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