Definition of life preserver
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: a device (such as a life jacket or life buoy) designed to save a person from drowning by providing buoyancy in water
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The four open-cockpit planes could only carry under 300 pounds of supplies, writes the National Air and Space Museum, which meant no life preservers and no parachutes.
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There would be no life preserver cast to pull him ashore.
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Citing the fates of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the North Koreans repeatedly said that their nuclear program is the ultimate life preserver for the regime.
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First Known Use of life preserver
1819
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Definition of life preserver for English Language Learners
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: a floating device that is designed to save you from drowning
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Definition of life preserver for Students
: a device (as a life jacket or life buoy) designed to save a person from drowning by keeping the person afloat
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