lifelinenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈlaɪf.laɪn/us/ˈlaɪf.laɪn/something, especially a way of getting help, that you depend on to lead your life in a satisfactory way:
For many old people living on their own the phone is their lifeline to the outside world.
a rope that is thrown to someone who is in the water, especially the sea, and is in danger
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Essential or necessary
- a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do idiom
- basically
- basis
- be a question of doing sth idiom
- business-critical
- dependence
- if/when push comes to shove idiom
- imply
- incumbent
- indispensable
- inherent
- integral
- needed
- needful
- occasion
- on a need-to-know basis idiom
- owe
- owe it to yourself idiom
- underlying
- warrant
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