Usually means: Small vessel for emergency evacuation.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word lifeboat:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lifeboat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lifeboat: Merriam-Webster
  3. lifeboat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lifeboat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lifeboat: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lifeboat: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lifeboat, lifeboat: Wordnik
  8. lifeboat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lifeboat: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. lifeboat: Wiktionary
  11. lifeboat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. lifeboat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. lifeboat: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Lifeboat, lifeboat: Dictionary.com
  15. lifeboat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lifeboat (rescue), Lifeboat (shipboard), Lifeboat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lifeboat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lifeboat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lifeboat: Rhymezone
  20. Lifeboat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lifeboat: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lifeboat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lifeboat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lifeboat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lifeboat: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lifeboat: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lifeboat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lifeboat: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) 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).
noun:  (science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
verb:  To rescue; to carry to safety

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