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/pɹɪsˈɜːvɐ/
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[ US /pɹəˈzɝvɝ, pɹiˈzɝvɝ, pɹɪˈzɝvɝ/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈzɝvɝ, pɹiˈzɝvɝ, pɹɪˈzɝvɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
How To Use preserver In A Sentence
- Thanks to the streetlamp, I read the name painted on a life preserver mounted on the deck of the boat. Fat Chance
- That night, my husband's hug felt like a life preserver.
- Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times
- I, Ms. Rationality, am able to discuss in modulated tones how the market for this topic has changed; or conversely it's been done to death (even if I could have done it better); or the editor wouldn't have the good sense to recognize a great idea if he were on the Titanic and being offered a life preserver. Me and Sally Field | The Stiletto Gang
- The interesting thing is that five years ago Grand Chief Penashue said about hunters in the protected preserver, The hunt in the Red Wine caribou range was not just an illegal protest, it was completely inconsistent with Innu values. Endangered Species Vs Cultural Tradition « Colleen Anderson
- The pill is unfortunately too expensive to serve as a food preserver, but researchers are already working on a cheaper nitric oxide vehicle.
- The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.
- ‘This does not bode well with me,’ James said as he held his rifle as though it were a life preserver in rough seas.
- He is powerful beyond anything I have ever encountered, and my being a preserver, that is a considerable statement. Shadow Hunters
- Nonprofit organization is the preserver of social justice and morals, bust also the practicer. Nonprofit organization won't be regarded as law-breaker.