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Search and rescue

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Noun
  1. 1
    An effort to save persons whose locations are not precisely known from hazardous situations. countable, uncountable

    "that an expedition may be fitted out by the government of the United States for the Arctic zone, for the search and rescue of the American expedition under the command of Dr. Kane"

  2. 2
    The emergency service that performs or coordinates such efforts. countable, uncountable

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