noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
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And for most pensioners, even those with supplementary pensions or savings, the state pension is their financial lifeline .
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On the other hand, this insurance will help provide a financial lifeline when it is most needed.
■ VERB
provide
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This provided a lifeline for those who could receive it, and an immaculate standard of reporting to measure reality against propaganda.
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While parents provide a lifeline for many women in poverty, they are not always an unproblematic source of help.
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On the other hand, this insurance will help provide a financial lifeline when it is most needed.
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In other places, canals have provided a damp lifeline for plants surviving from much earlier wetlands.
throw
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Nonconformist borrowers were thrown a lifeline only five years ago when this new breed of mortgage lender was born.
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His shock decision - on the eve of Labour's party conference - threw a lifeline to battered Premier John Major.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Because I work at home, the telephone is like a lifeline to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His shock decision - on the eve of Labour's party conference - threw a lifeline to battered Premier John Major.
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In the months ahead that link would prove a lifeline .
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The gaps in the Wall are the lifelines which sustain the régimes of the East and their ability to keep us divided.
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The older philosopher offers the young Nietzsche a lifeline between his scholarly avocation and the world outside.
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These are isolated places dependent for a lifeline on the road from Shiel Bridge and otherwise quite inaccessible overland by vehicles.