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Life raft

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A usually inflatable raft carried aboard a ship or airplane, used to save lives in case the vessel has to be abandoned in an emergency on the sea.
  2. 2
    a raft to use if a ship must be abandoned in an emergency wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that provides help in a state of difficulty or despair. figuratively

    "For Mr. Kim, a mediocre middle school student who was often in trouble, Stuyvesant, from which he graduated in 1993, was a life raft. Now, as the president of Stuyvesant’s alumni organization, an advocacy group with deep ties to politicians, he has one of the most powerful voices in the debate about specialized school admissions."

Etymology

From life + raft.

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