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lifeboat
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noun
- a boat, propelled by oars or a motor, used for rescuing people at sea, escaping from a sinking ship, etc
- informal.a fund set up by the dealers in a market to rescue any member who may become insolvent as a result of a collapse in market prices
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
Then he was saved by a lifeboat after being a victim of a shipwreck.
A "barely conscious" man has been rescued from Loch Lomond after a lifeboat crew heard his cries for help.
If Thames were to collapse, those members would likely be transferred to the lifeboat Pension Protection Fund, which provides lower future benefits than those promised by the original scheme.
Once all crew had been accounted for they got into a lifeboat, with the captain being the last person to disembark.
Thomas James Agar Robartes MP is recorded to have given £150 to the cost of a six-oared lifeboat, and railway companies transported the vessel free of charge from London to Truro.
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