Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Designed to save life; especially, designed to save those who are in danger of drowning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun saving the lives of drowning persons
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Examples
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And it stands to reason that if all children had received basic healthcare - defined as life-saving vaccinations and diarrhoea treatment - child mortality would have come down even further.
40 million children live in healthcare deserts, says new report 2011
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While some faith institutions have world class evaluation practices, there is still a common view that filling out forms is useless bureaucracy when there is life-saving work to be done.
Katherine Marshall: 10 Faith-Inspired Ideas To Save Mother's Lives Katherine Marshall 2011
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While some faith institutions have world class evaluation practices, there is still a common view that filling out forms is useless bureaucracy when there is life-saving work to be done.
Katherine Marshall: 10 Faith-Inspired Ideas To Save Mother's Lives Katherine Marshall 2011
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Much of this is thanks to the hundreds of businesses, non-profits, academic institutions, and foundations across the state zealously working to better conditions in all 144 developing countries and developing life-saving vaccines and pro-poor technologies and programs.
Tim Hanstad: Washington State's Most Important Export: Hope Tim Hanstad 2011
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While some faith institutions have world class evaluation practices, there is still a common view that filling out forms is useless bureaucracy when there is life-saving work to be done.
Katherine Marshall: 10 Faith-Inspired Ideas To Save Mother's Lives Katherine Marshall 2011
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The Disposable Pre-Paid Phone could be that life-saving device, which could get you out of a sticky situation.
Disposable Pre-paid Mobile Phone by Shirley A. Roberts » Yanko Design 2009
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Mackey says "wake-up" stroke sufferers are more likely to miss out on a potentially life-saving clot-busting medication called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, that can only be given within the first few hours after stroke symptoms begin.
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While some faith institutions have world class evaluation practices, there is still a common view that filling out forms is useless bureaucracy when there is life-saving work to be done.
Katherine Marshall: 10 Faith-Inspired Ideas To Save Mother's Lives Katherine Marshall 2011
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Mackey says "wake-up" stroke sufferers are more likely to miss out on a potentially life-saving clot-busting medication called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, that can only be given within the first few hours after stroke symptoms begin.
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While some faith institutions have world class evaluation practices, there is still a common view that filling out forms is useless bureaucracy when there is life-saving work to be done.
Katherine Marshall: 10 Faith-Inspired Ideas To Save Mother's Lives Katherine Marshall 2011
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