Usually means: Device designed to prevent drowning.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word life preserver:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. life preserver: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. life preserver: Merriam-Webster
  3. life preserver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. life preserver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. life preserver: Collins English Dictionary
  6. life preserver: Vocabulary.com
  7. life-preserver: Wordnik
  8. life preserver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. life preserver: Wiktionary
  10. life preserver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. life preserver: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Life-preserver, life preserver: Dictionary.com
  13. Life preserver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Life-preserver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. life-preserver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. life preserver: Rhymezone
  17. Life-preserver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. LIFE PRESERVER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. Life Preserver: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. life-preserver, life preserver: FreeDictionary.org
  21. life preserver: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Life-preserver, life preserver: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life preserver: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See life_preservers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (life preserver)

noun:  (US) A buoyant ring or vest intended to keep a person afloat.
noun:  (dated, UK) A short club with a weighted end.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see life, preserver.

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