rescue equipment

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   equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency

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Questions about rescue equipment

What does rescue equipment mean?

rescue equipment means "equipment used to rescue passengers in case of emergency".

Is rescue equipment a common word?

rescue equipment 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.