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life support

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
life support noun
life support
noun
Learner's definition of LIFE SUPPORT
[noncount]
medical : the equipment, material, and treatment needed to keep a very sick or hurt patient alive生命维持设备
: the things that are needed to keep someone alive in a place (such as outer space) where life is usually not possible生命保障

— life-support

/ˈlaɪfsəˌpoɚt/ adjective, always used before a noun

— life-support

/ˈlaɪfsəˌpoɚt/ adjective, always used before a noun

See also: life-support


life-support

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adjective

life-sup·​port ˈlīf-sə-ˈpȯrt How to pronounce life-support (audio)
: providing support necessary to sustain life
especially : of or relating to a system providing such support
life-support equipment

life support

2 of 2

noun

: medical life-support equipment
the patient was placed on life support

Example Sentences

Noun He was removed from life support. She was put on life support. equipment providing life support for astronauts
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
She was declared legally dead by the state of California on Aug. 12, despite remaining on life support in order to donate her organs. Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2022 Then an organ-donor organization agreed to allow Dr. Hanneken to recover eyes from patients who were declared brain dead, but who remained on life support to keep their heart and other organs viable for transplant. Ron Winslow, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2022 The bill is the culmination of years of attempts to fix the state’s deposit program, which is on life support after recycling centers closed in droves in recent years. Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022 But a vote in Maine last year to block the project left the transmission line on life support, all but dooming a major piece of Massachusetts’ plan to rapidly clean its power grid and likely setting the state’s climate efforts back by years. Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 She was being kept on life support until her organs could be donated. Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Aug. 2022 She was declared brain dead on Aug. 11, and was kept alive on life support for three more days so her organs could be donated. Andrew Dalton, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022 She was declared brain-dead, but was kept on life support in case her organs could be donated, an assessment that took nine days. Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2022 Florida’s insurance market has spent most of the last two years on life support, battered by financial woes, the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently reported. Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1959, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1974, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of life-support was in 1959

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