"working life" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: working lives [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|working lives}} working life (plural working lives)
  1. (of a person) The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement. Related terms: work life Translations (period spent in employment): arbejdsliv [neuter] (Danish), beroepsleven [neuter] (Dutch), työelämä (Finnish), vie active [feminine] (French), Arbeitsleben [neuter] (German), Erwerbsleben [neuter] (German), arbeidsliv [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), arbeidsliv [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), życie zawodowe [neuter] (Polish), arbetsliv [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-working_life-en-noun-en:era_of_a_person_s_employment Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of 'period spent in employment': 89 11
  2. (of an object) The lifespan of something, especially a durable good: how long it is expected to last; how long it does in fact last. Synonyms: service life, useful life
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Inflected forms

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