life support
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.37 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An artificial system designed to provide oxygen and other conditions necessary for human life in an inhospitable environment.
Uncountable
noun
The maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery.
Uncountable
noun
A means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The more immediate concern is the life support systems. Those units are fifty years old—a conservative estimate. If the air scrubbers stop working, we die. If the pressure regulators stop working, we die. Artificial gravity fails? We die. You get the picture."
- "As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support."
- "In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability.""