From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlife-savingˈlife-ˌsaving1, lifesaving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun] life-saving medical treatments or equipment are used to help save people’s liveslife-saving surgery/treatment/drugs etc The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
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life-saving• Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.• But a craft that size would carry alternative life-saving equipment.• Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.• For that he was awarded his first life-saving medal.• It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.• The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.• And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.• a life-saving operation• Dramatic life-saving techniques, organ transplants and similar developments have popular appeal.life-savinglife-saving2, lifesaving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] DSSthe skills necessary to save a person from drowning All of the staff have been trained in lifesaving.Examples from the Corpus
life-saving• Even those doctors who practise in areas remote from hospitals do relatively little life-saving. 