"life-saving" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2014-01-23",
          "text": "King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no “I Have a Dream” speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.",
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          "ref": "2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Rizwan Javed”, in RAIL, number 940, page 58 [concerning suicide prevention]",
          "text": "Rizwan, who began his career on the railways in 2015, has risen to national prominence after making an estimated 29 life-saving interventions.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Preserving life; preventing death."
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          "Preserving",
          "preserve"
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          "preventing",
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      "synonyms": [
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            "uncommon"
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          "word": "lifesaving"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "preventing death",
          "word": "lebensrettend"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "in compound words",
          "sense": "preventing death",
          "word": "Rettungs-"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "preventing death",
          "word": "életmentő"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "preventing death",
          "word": "livreddende"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "life-saving"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2014-01-23",
          "text": "King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no “I Have a Dream” speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.",
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          "ref": "2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Rizwan Javed”, in RAIL, number 940, page 58 [concerning suicide prevention]",
          "text": "Rizwan, who began his career on the railways in 2015, has risen to national prominence after making an estimated 29 life-saving interventions.",
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        "Preserving life; preventing death."
      ],
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          "preserve"
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          "preventing",
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  "synonyms": [
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        "uncommon"
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      "word": "lifesaving"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "preventing death",
      "word": "lebensrettend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "in compound words",
      "sense": "preventing death",
      "word": "Rettungs-"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "preventing death",
      "word": "életmentő"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "preventing death",
      "word": "livreddende"
    }
  ],
  "word": "life-saving"
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