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life-saving

1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A life-saving drug, operation, or action is one that saves someone's life or is likely to save their life.
...life-saving drugs such as antibiotics.
She decided her child should go to America for life-saving treatment.
2. uncountable noun
You use life-saving to refer to the skills and activities connected with rescuing people, especially people who are drowning.
She teaches swimming, lifesaving and water aerobics.

life-saving in British English

adjective
1. 
acting to save a person's life
2.  informal
giving help in time of need
noun
3. 
the practice or techniques of saving people's lives

Examples of 'life-saving' in a sentence
life-saving

It means they may fail to deliver a potentially life-saving electric shock to heart attack victims.
The Sun (2016)
Just a quarter of females are able to get access to drug trials that could provide them with life-saving treatments.
The Sun (2016)
His victim needed life-saving emergency surgery.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
THOUSANDS of heart attack patients are missing out on potentially life-saving rehab.
The Sun (2016)
In many cases, an organ transplant is life-saving.
The Sun (2016)
The same would be true of life-saving drugs, for me and millions of others.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
THOUSANDS of patients are being denied a potentially life-saving heart test, a report claims.
The Sun (2016)
HUNDREDS of thousands of cancer patients may be missing out on vital early treatment because life-saving scanners are underused, a report says.
The Sun (2016)
This woman got the life-saving cancer drug she needed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet it is rich in potentially life-saving stem cells.
The Sun (2014)
Cancer patients spend hundreds of pounds on parking charges to attend hospital for life-saving treatment.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It has has already paid for an inflatable hospital and scores of life-saving operations.
The Sun (2010)
When she came round from life-saving surgery she had been fitted with two.
The Sun (2014)
That money could provide comfort to the dying or life-saving drugs for those in dire need.
The Sun (2012)
This meant that suddenly there were six people who could receive life-saving surgery simultaneously.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We hope people will come in to our shop and learn a potentially life-saving message.
The Sun (2014)
The pair were taken to hospital for life-saving surgery.
The Sun (2011)
He was rushed to hospital where doctors and a psychiatrist decided the life-saving liver operation was in his best interests.
The Sun (2009)
The wound is the legacy of a life-saving heart operation and serves as a permanent reminder of his early brush with death.
The Sun (2013)
The unnamed victim was rushed to hospital, where he spent a month having life-saving treatment.
The Sun (2015)
He said that patients must'get access to new life-saving drugs years faster than they donow.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A veterinary charity is warning pet owners to beware of tinsel after two cats needed life-saving treatment after eating it.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Trained in sports injury rehabilitation, she knows that recovery is about more than just life-saving operations.
The Sun (2013)
THE youngest of four brothers diagnosed with the same rare condition was back home last night after a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
The Sun (2008)
THE third of four young brothers with a rare disease is set to return to school after a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
The Sun (2006)

In other languages
life-saving

British English: life-saving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ ADJECTIVE
A life-saving drug, operation, or action is one that saves someone's life or is likely to save their life.
...life-saving drugs such as antibiotics.
  • American English: life-saving
  • Arabic: مُنْقِذٌ لِلحَيَاة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: salva-vida
  • Chinese: 救生的
  • Croatian: što spašava život
  • Czech: život zachraňující
  • Danish: livreddende
  • Dutch: levensreddend
  • European Spanish: que salva vidas
  • Finnish: henkiä pelastava
  • French: de sauvetage
  • German: lebensrettend
  • Greek: σωστικός
  • Italian: salvavita
  • Japanese: 救命の
  • Korean: 생명을 구해주는
  • Norwegian: livreddende
  • Polish: ratowniczy
  • European Portuguese: salva-vida
  • Romanian: salvator
  • Russian: спасательный
  • Latin American Spanish: que salva vidas
  • Swedish: livräddnings–
  • Thai: ซึ่งช่วยชีวิต
  • Turkish: can kurtaran
  • Ukrainian: такий, що рятує життя
  • Vietnamese: cứu mạng

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