survivalnoun
uk/səˈvaɪ.vəl/us/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/B2 [ U ] the fact of a person, organization, etc. continuing to live or exist:
The doctors told my wife I had a 50/50 chance of survival.
His main concern is to ensure his own political survival.
England are fighting for survival (= trying not to be defeated) in this game.
[ C ] something that has continued to exist from a previous time:
Most of these traditions are survivals from earlier times.
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- Humans, he argues, are amoral and what guides them is not any sense of morality but an instinct for survival.
- Two months ago, results from a European study questioned whether early treatment with the drug really improved survival.
- Fish struggle for survival when the water level drops in the lake.
- The survival of whales is intimately bound up with the health of the ocean.
- What are her chances of survival?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- live out sth
- living
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
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survivaladjective
uk/səˈvaɪ.vəl/us/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/continuing to exist or wanting to continue to exist:
We all have a strong survival instinct.
The survival rate for people who have this form of cancer is now more than 90 percent.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- live out sth
- living
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
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