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# lifesaving

«lifesaving» in Mova's school dictionary: **saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lifesaving means saving or able to save someone's life, like lifesaving medicine. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/#m2)

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

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lifesaving» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifesaving/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.