English-French translations for lifeboat

• canot de sauvetage
  Trois ouvriers intérimaires sont morts alors qu'ils testaient un canot de sauvetage et 16 ouvriers ont été blessés. Three temporary workers died while testing a lifeboat, and 16 workers were injured.
  Imposer un taux d'intérêt aussi élevé que celui-là, c'est comme attacher une pierre au cou d'un homme qui se noie en même temps qu'on lui envoie un canot de sauvetage. Charging an interest rate like the one we are being charged is akin to tying a millstone around the neck of a drowning man while you are sending out the lifeboat to save him.
• radeau de survie

Definition of lifeboat

• A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship
• To rescue; to carry to safety

Related words

• lifebuoy
• lifebelt
• lifeblood
• lifeboatman