Usually means: Systems sustaining life in emergencies.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word life support:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. life-support, life support: Merriam-Webster
  2. life support: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. life-support, life support: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. life-support, life-support, life support: Collins English Dictionary
  5. life-support, life support: Vocabulary.com
  6. life-support: Wordnik
  7. life-support, life support: Wiktionary
  8. life-support: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. life-support: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. life-support, life support: Dictionary.com
  11. Life Support (British TV series), Life Support (TV series), Life Support (album), Life Support (film), Life Support, Life support (aviation), Life support (disambiguation), Life support: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. life-support, life support: Rhymezone
  13. life-support, life support: FreeDictionary.org
  14. life-support, life support: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. life-support, life support: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. life-support, life support: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. life support: Netlingo
  2. life support: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. life support: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Life-support, Life support: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. life-support, life support: Medical dictionary
  5. Life-support, Life support: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life support: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See life_supporting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (life support)

noun:  An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen.
noun:  (medicine) The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
noun:  (medicine) The equipment and special procedures used for life support.
noun:  (figuratively) A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.

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