"lifetime job" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lifetime jobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lifetime job (plural lifetime jobs)
  1. (US) A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement. Tags: US Synonyms (job for one's whole career): job for life Translations (A job for one's whole career): emploi à vie [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-lifetime_job-en-noun-PhhgUXAu Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1984, John Diebold, Making the Future Work: Unleashing our Powers of Innovation for the Decades Ahead, Simon and Schuster, pages 300–301",
          "text": "The lifetime-job program was one of the concessions that the UAW won from Ford, and later from General Motors, in return for labor cost savings during contract negotiations […] Perhaps it is this rethinking of labor’s needs, on the parts of both unions and management, that will surface as the most important gain from the lifetime-job experiment.",
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