Usually means: Locating and saving missing persons.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. search and rescue: Collins English Dictionary
  2. search and rescue: Wiktionary
  3. Search and Rescue (Australian TV series), Search and Rescue (Stargate Atlantis), Search and Rescue, Search-and-rescue, Search and rescue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. search and rescue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Search-and-rescue, search and rescue: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Search and Rescue: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (search and rescue)

noun:  An effort to save persons whose locations are not precisely known from hazardous situations.
noun:  The emergency service that performs or coordinates such efforts.

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