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UK
/lˈaɪfseɪvɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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saving the lives of drowning persons
he took a course in lifesaving
How To Use lifesaving In A Sentence
- They will receive their own powhiri at 9: 30am in the ASB Village, and then spend the morning in the ASB Village engaging in community interactive activity with groups such as The Order of St John, Surf Lifesaving, Northern Region Coastguard and a display demonstrating the GetWise primary school financial literacy programme. NZ On Screen
- The answers might be of trivial importance now, but someday it could be lifesaving.
- This could be 40 cents worth of lifesaving blood coagulant to stop post-partum haemorrhage, 3 cents worth of magnesium sulphate administered correctly to stop pre-eclamptic rising blood pressure, or even just basic clean wipes and the means of delivering a malaria net for the start of new life, or the antiretroviral drugs that prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- he took a course in lifesaving
- It's a rattly festival of lifesaving compounds that — once the dreaded expiry date has arrived — no longer serve any legal function past perhaps so many makeshift maracas. Vet's view: 'Dead' drugs can be lifesavers
- Ministers have been accused of refusing to discuss the introduction of a lifesaving vaccine as negotiations over the promised injection for meningitis B descend into acrimony. Times, Sunday Times
- Early recompression on pure oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber is essential and potentially lifesaving.
- On a urgent -- potentially lifesaving -- global matter, the United States, recently broke it's commitment to fulfill its fair-share contribution to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, choosing instead to short-change it by $2 billion -- leaving millions of people around the world to die from AIDS, and millions of children unnecessarily orphaned. Dr. Paul Zeitz: Let Freedom Ring -- Now! Now!!
- There is increasing concern that swimmers are ignoring warnings to stay out of dangerous waters, and in some areas vandals are removing critical lifesaving equipment from lakesides.
- A fighter plane carries a kit of lifesaving appliance when he bails out the fighter plane.