Synonyms for lifeboat
ˈlaɪfˌboʊtlifeboat

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1. lifeboatnoun

   Synonyms:
   quarter boat, rowboat, raft, scull

2. lifeboatnoun

   a boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

   Synonyms:
   scull, raft, rowboat, quarter boat

Princeton's WordNet

1. lifeboatnoun

   a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship

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1. • Sea Boat

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1. List of paraphrases for "lifeboat":

   canoe, boat

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1. Thomas Monaco:

   The growing investment in risky, higher-return assets is the Titanic, and when it goes down it will take more than one lifeboat, the real problem for insurance companies is that the overall investment yields are coming down in China, so they are going out of the credit risk curve. They are going for higher interest rate bets, and a lot of them could go bad.

2. Janos Lazar:

   If we do not take meaningful steps, we will become a lifeboat that sinks beneath the weight of those clinging onto it.

3. Andy Saunders:

   Step into the boots of Commander Jim Lovell (hand, left) as he keeps watch over his ship and crew as they try to rest in the cold, dark Lunar Module lifeboat.

4. David Williams:

   They got a lifeboat, they're going to have to get this pork from somewhere.