Usually means: Preventing death, preserving human health.
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  1. life-saving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. life-saving, life-saving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Life-Saving, Life-saving, life-saving: Wordnik
  4. life-saving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. life-saving: Wiktionary
  6. Life-saving: Dictionary.com
  7. Life-saving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. life-saving: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Life-saving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. life-saving: FreeDictionary.org
  11. life-saving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (life-saving)

▸ adjective:  Preserving life; preventing death.

Similar:
lifegiving, life-giving, vital, life-critical, preservative, conservative, life-bearing, alive, death-dealing, redeeming, more...

Opposite:
deadly, lethal, fatal, harmful, dangerous

Types:
first aid, CPR, AED, more...

Phrases:
United States Life-Saving Service, Pea Island Life-Saving Station, more...

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Similar:
lifegiving, life-giving, vital, life-critical, preservative, conservative, life-bearing, alive, death-dealing, redeeming, more...

Opposite:
deadly, lethal, fatal, harmful, dangerous

Types:
first aid, CPR, AED, more...

Phrases:
United States Life-Saving Service, Pea Island Life-Saving Station, more...



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