working life
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
working life (plural working lives)
- The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement.
- 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
- Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
- 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.
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Translations[edit]
period spent in employment
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References[edit]
- “working life”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.