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lifeboats

noun

Meaning

  1. A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship)
  2. An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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