"life-long" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "life + -long",
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      "expansion": "life-long (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38",
          "text": "One theme of the conference was Organising the Railway as a Business, and Fred Margetts, the chief regional manager of the North Eastern Region and a life-long railwayman, was given the task of taking the lead.",
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        "Alternative spelling of lifelong"
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          "lifelong#English"
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  "word": "life-long"
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    {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "life + -long",
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      },
      "expansion": "life-long (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "lifelong"
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        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38",
          "text": "One theme of the conference was Organising the Railway as a Business, and Fred Margetts, the chief regional manager of the North Eastern Region and a life-long railwayman, was given the task of taking the lead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of lifelong"
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  "word": "life-long"
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