flotation device

1. 1.

   rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning

   Synonymslife preserverpreserver

   Broaderfloatrescue equipment

   Narrowerlife buoylife jacketwater wings

Questions about flotation device

What does flotation device mean?

flotation device means "rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning".

What is another word for flotation device?

Close synonyms include life preserver, preserver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flotation device a common word?

flotation device is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.