"lifeway" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017, Jason Hickel, “Neoliberalism Comes Home”, in The Divide […], London: William Heinemann",
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        "(now chiefly Canada, US) One's path through life; a lifestyle or behaviour, now especially when seen as traditional."
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