0 someone or something that gives you a lot of help when you are in a very difficult situation:
1 a person on a beach or at a swimming pool whose job is to make certain that the swimmers are safe and save them if they are in danger
There are very practical examples of how local radio has acted not only as a companion and friend but as a life-saver.
The scheme has been a life-saver for the textile and footwear industries.
The pressures on youth today are ugly and severe and the youth movement is therefore a life-saver.
I believe that for the fit older people suitable work, almost certainly not full-time work, is literally in many cases a life-saver.
That sum of £2 million does not sound very much these days, but then it was a life-saver.
The decline in swimming is particularly worrying, given its capacity as a life-saver.
It is of the utmost value, and the greatest life-saver if properly installed.
The seat belt is unquestionably the biggest life-saver available.
