Usually means: Preventing death through timely intervention.
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  1. lifesaving: Merriam-Webster
  2. lifesaving: Vocabulary.com
  3. Lifesaving, lifesaving: Wordnik
  4. lifesaving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. lifesaving: Wiktionary
  6. lifesaving: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. lifesaving: Dictionary.com
  8. Lifesaving (sport), Lifesaving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. lifesaving: Rhymezone
  10. lifesaving: FreeDictionary.org
  11. lifesaving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. lifesaving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lifesaving: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lifesaving: Sports Definitions

(Note: See lifesavings as well.)

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noun:  The act of saving a life, especially from drowning.
adjective:  (uncommon) Alternative form of life-saving [Preserving life; preventing death.]

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