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# lifesaving

adjective (lifesaving, life-saving); noun (lifesaving, uncountable)

«lifesaving» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Lifesaving means saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving medicine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#m1)
2. Lifesaving is the skill of rescuing people from drowning, taught in swimming and lifeguard classes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#m2)

### In the lessons

Health and safety: lifesaving skills, CPR, defibrillators; swimming badges; Surf Life Saving clubs in Australia and New Zealand. It tells the reader something can rescue people.

### Examples

- She learned lifesaving at the swimming pool. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x1)
- The defibrillator is a lifesaving machine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x2)
- Vaccines are lifesaving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x3)
- He got a badge in lifesaving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x4)
- Learning CPR is a lifesaving skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x5)
- The lifeguards did a lifesaving rescue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#x6)

### Note

Also written «life-saving». Related: lifeguard, lifesaver.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lifesaving» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lifesaving» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifesaving.html) on Mova free.