noun
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the blood, considered as vital to sustain life
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the essential or animating force
Etymology
Origin of lifeblood
Example Sentences
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PdVSA is effectively Venezuela’s alter ego, tied at the hip given that oil remains the lifeblood of the economy.
From Barron's
PdVSA is effectively Venezuela’s alter ego, tied at the hip given that oil remains the lifeblood of the economy.
From Barron's
Energy exports are the lifeblood of the Russian economy.
That is part of the lifeblood of the state’s culture, cuisine, commerce and sense of possibility, and those students are now our teachers, nurses, physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs and tech whizzes.
From Los Angeles Times
Investment, the lifeblood of economic growth, logged the worst decline in decades in recent months.
From Barron's
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