"working life" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "working lives"
      },
      "expansion": "working life (plural working lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement."
      ],
      "id": "en-working_life-en-noun-68Z5m3oG",
      "links": [
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "retirement",
          "retirement"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "work life"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "arbejdsliv"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "beroepsleven"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "word": "työelämä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "vie active"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Arbeitsleben"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Erwerbsleben"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "arbeidsliv"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "arbeidsliv"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "życie zawodowe"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "period spent in employment",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "arbetsliv"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working life"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working lives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "working lives"
      },
      "expansion": "working life (plural working lives)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "work life"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ],
        [
          "retirement",
          "retirement"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "arbejdsliv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "beroepsleven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "word": "työelämä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vie active"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Arbeitsleben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Erwerbsleben"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "arbeidsliv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "arbeidsliv"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "życie zawodowe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "period spent in employment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "arbetsliv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "working life"
}