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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lifetime
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lifetime ban
▪ He faces a lifetime ban from athletics.
a lifetime guarantee (=one that lasts as long as the object your have bought)
▪ The binoculars are covered against manufacturing faults by a lifetime guarantee.
change/break the habits of a lifetime (=stop doing the things you have done for many years)
▪ It is hard to change the habits of a lifetime, but you must eat more healthily or you will have a heart attack.
the chance of a lifetime (=one that you are very unlikely to have again)
▪ If you don’t decide soon, you’ll have missed the chance of a lifetime.
the holiday of a lifetime (=a very good or expensive holiday that you will only take once)
▪ We took the family on a holiday of a lifetime to Orlando, Florida.
the lifetime of a parliament (=from when a government is elected until it calls an election)
▪ We shall not make changes in this area, at least in the lifetime of this Parliament.
the opportunity of a lifetime (=a very good opportunity that you will only get once)
▪ The winner of the contest got the opportunity of a lifetime – the chance to work with a top fashion designer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
short
▪ Shorter working hours and a shorter working lifetime have always been central to the Labour movement's demands.
▪ The near-Earth asteroids and comets have very short lifetimes.
▪ These result in short lifetimes for the upper states, and hence a loss of definition of the energy levels.
▪ Because of these orbital properties, some of these bodies have very short expected orbital lifetimes before colliding with Earth.
▪ The habits of a short lifetime die hard.
▪ If these bodies have such short lifetimes, why do we see so many?
▪ The broadening of the higher bands reflects progressively shorter lifetimes for the final highly-excited vibrational states.
▪ Specifically, under rapidly changing market conditions, acquired information is time-critical and tends to have a shorter lifetime.
■ NOUN
achievement
▪ Viktor Petrenko, a favorite, took the gold as a lifetime achievement award.
▪ In all, Kramer's films won 15 Oscars in various categories and one for lifetime achievement.
ban
▪ Read in studio Weightlifter Andrew Saxton is tonight hopeful that he won't now face a lifetime ban from his sport.
▪ He said the arguments for Proposition 140 do not say that a lifetime ban is not imposed.
▪ If you refuse, you will be treated as though you had failed the test, and you will face a lifetime ban.
▪ A federal court has upheld legislative term limits in Maine that do not have a lifetime ban.
▪ This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking, for which you may face a lifetime ban.
▪ The ruling yesterday is expected to have an impact on six other states that have legislative term limits with lifetime bans.
▪ Whether Proposition 140 imposes a lifetime ban was a major issue discussed by the state Supreme Court in 1991.
▪ Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
consumption
▪ This alternative version is referred to below as a lifetime consumption base.
earnings
▪ One comprehensive analysis of lifetime earnings costs due to childrearing is a study by Heather Joshi.
▪ Given students' aspirations and the data on lifetime earnings, the route to four-year institutions must remain open.
employment
▪ Employees are sometimes shareholders through stock-ownership schemes, but are mainly taken care of through labour laws and guarantees of lifetime employment.
▪ But workers here are accustomed to lifetime employment and see the provisions as a major threat to their job security.
▪ If lifetime employment is so limited, to what extent have labour unions fought to widen its coverage?
▪ Already the Pioneer Electronics Corporation has disregarded its lifetime employment policy by demanding that 35 mid-level managers accept early retirement.
▪ Far better, with the demise of lifetime employment, to switch to a notion of lifetime employability.
income
▪ For example, the marginal propensity to make bequests out of lifetime income may rise with the level of income.
▪ I have friends reaping lifetime income from maintaining a green corridor along an urban stream.
▪ This departs from the measure based on lifetime incomes, on account of systematic life-cycle factors and of transitory variation in incomes.
▪ In these circumstances it is not possible to summarize a person's opportunity set by the measure of expected lifetime income.
▪ The implications for lifetime income may however be quite different, and a pension scheme may involve no redistribution.
▪ In this framework, inequality in lifetime income arises basically from differences in endowments.
▪ This has led to proposals that the redistributive impact be assessed in terms of lifetime income.
limit
▪ All too often these individuals will run out of money in the face of managed care denials and low lifetime limits.
▪ Time limits Federal law Families have a lifetime limit of five years on aid.
opportunity
▪ Learning must become a lifetime opportunity, with new chances to update skills at work.
▪ The Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
■ VERB
last
▪ Good looks can last your lifetime!
▪ The second benefit is long lasting; in fact, it lasts a lifetime.
▪ We've had enough of fair-haired people here to last us a lifetime!
▪ Grief following any death can last a lifetime.
▪ Eating smoked salmon while talking to Johnny Prescott had seemed to last a lifetime.
▪ Indeed, the overwhelming fascination of men with female youth argues that pair bonds have lasted lifetimes.
▪ In a single sentence, Pope John provided the Council with a method and commentators with material that could last a lifetime.
▪ Properly cared for, however, they can last a lifetime, even become heirlooms.
live
▪ Two months ago on an innocent April afternoon, yet already she had lived through a lifetime of sorrow.
▪ It was a sight to live for a lifetime in memory!
publish
▪ Wright produced a small number of remarkable poems, of which only two were published in her lifetime.
▪ It survives in four separated fragments, was not published in his lifetime and probably remained incomplete.
▪ Of its eight books only five were published in Hooker's lifetime.
seem
▪ Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment, but it had seemed like a lifetime.
▪ To many twenty-year-olds, the age of thirty-five seems like a lifetime away.
▪ Eating smoked salmon while talking to Johnny Prescott had seemed to last a lifetime.
▪ It seemed a lifetime since she'd gone to bed the night before.
▪ At times it still feels like yesterday, otherwise it seems a lifetime away.
spend
▪ I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry, especially at the coalface.
▪ They have spent a lifetime playing the birth lottery.
▪ One could spend a lifetime in Granada and still not see everything.
▪ And here she was now, in danger of being fired because she had spent a lifetime trying to be invisible.
▪ She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try.
▪ One could spend a lifetime learning a small range of mountains, and once upon a time people did.
▪ We have, in our company, many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry.
▪ I believe I could spend a lifetime getting Boat Quay and the people and the river into my camera.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A good tool should last a lifetime.
▪ During Dickinson's lifetime, only a few of her works were actually published.
▪ He suffered a lot of pain in his short lifetime.
▪ In our lifetime, ordinary people will travel to the moon.
▪ The National Medal of Arts award is meant to honor a lifetime of achievement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of Callinicos' philosophical sophistication and matchless political experience evaporate in the face of the art of his own lifetime.
▪ Create something that you love in your lifetime.
▪ Few women have been so worshipped and detested in their lifetime and by posterity.
▪ Good looks can last your lifetime!
▪ Grief following any death can last a lifetime.
▪ The government had argued that the original military recruiters didn't have the authority to offer lifetime health care.
▪ Would it continue to fascinate for a lifetime?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lifetime

Lifetime \Life"time`\ (l[imac]f"t[imac]m`), n. The time that life continues.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lifetime

also life-time, early 13c., from life (n.) + time (n.). One word from 19c. Old English had lifdæg in same sense, literally "life day."

Wiktionary
lifetime

n. 1 The duration of the life of someone or something. 2 (context informal hyperbole English) A long period of time.

Related phrases:
WordNet
lifetime

n. the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" [syn: life, lifespan]

Wikipedia
Lifetime (TV network)

Lifetime is an American cable and satellite television channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A+E Networks, which is jointly owned by the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company. The channel features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles.

As of July 2015, approximately 95,020,000 American households (81.6% of households with television) receive Lifetime.

Lifetime (Canada)

Lifetime is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Based on the U.S cable network of the same name, Lifetime broadcasts films, dramatic television series, and reality series aimed at women.

Lifetime

Lifetime may refer to:

  • Life expectancy, the length of time a person is expected to remain alive
  • Mean lifetime, a certain number that characterizes the rate of reduction ("decay") of a particle of an assembly
  • Service life, a product's expected lifetime, or the acceptable period of use in service
  • Object lifetime, in object-oriented programming, the time between an object's creation until the object is no longer used
  • "Life Time" (M*A*S*H episode)
  • Lifetime (TV network), a cable television programming network geared towards women
  • Lifetime (band), a rock band
  • Lifetime (Canada), the Canadian version of the TV channel of the same name
  • Lifetime Products, a manufacturer of tables, chairs, outdoor sheds, utility trailers, and residential basketball equipment
Lifetime (band)

Lifetime is an American punk rock band from New Jersey. Lifetime was formed in 1990 and disbanded in 1997. In late 2005, they announced their reunion.

Lifetime (album)

Lifetime is the fourth album by the influential New Jersey band Lifetime.

Lifetime (song)

"Lifetime" is a song by American R&B/soul singer Maxwell, and is the second single from his Now album. The song was a top five hit on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart and peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Lifetime (UK and Ireland)

Lifetime is a British entertainment television channel that launched on 4 November 2013, owned by A+E Networks UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB. The channel replaced Bio.

Programmes that air on the channel include The Client List, Damages, Witches of East End, the Lifetime U.S. original movie Liz & Dick and an original series called The Proposers.

It launched on TalkTalk on 28 August 2014 along with its sister channels. It is on the Entertainment Boost along with H2.

Lifetime (South East Asia)

Lifetime is an Asian television channel owned by A+E Networks Asia, a joint-venture between A+E Networks and Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd.

Unlike its U.S. counterpart, Lifetime airs mostly entertainment and lifestyle programs aimed for female audiences.

Lifetime (Real Life album)

Lifetime is the sixth studio album by the Melbourne band Real Life. The album contains the track, "God Tonight", which reached No. 47 on the Australian charts. The songs, "God Tonight" and "Kiss the Ground", reached the Modern Rock and Dance charts in the United States.

Usage examples of "lifetime".

Perhaps it felt that Meir Amit was a general more likely to obey orders than the choleric Harel, who had become a legend in his own lifetime among the Israeli people and relished it.

He said he saw no reason why such a retrograde amnesia should not thrust backward decades, or almost a whole lifetime.

Earth herself, who is Mother Nature, antecedent to society, and whose claims are antecedent too, spoke forth and with a sound of thunder made known that the one there sitting had, through innumerable lifetimes, so given of himself to the world that there was no one there.

More of a fortune than a hundred Apropos could spend in a thousand lifetimes.

Gift from UpstairsGod, the irreverent insanity down here, after a lifetime ase, and the politics, and the Movement.

The world moved slowly, trancelike, as Asteria agonizingly raised her thin arms to ward off the blow and I involuntarily did the same, even though distant from the blade by many yards, by a lifetime.

Troy Game was moving, and it was time for Asterion to put into motion the plan that he had spent this entire lifetime constructing.

Hapless civilians had been trapped in bombed and burning buildings, had stood in streets watching the possessions of a lifetime burn away, had fled their cities in fear and misery in many places before.

After we see Disney World and Busch Gardens and maybe even Universal City, after we have our just due and this Carroll has bought us all the Florida clothes we can wear in two lifetimes, we will go home.

He spent his excess time and energy on the one avenue of Bushido open to him: martial arts training for a war that might not come in his lifetime.

They were in the imperial gardens, where she and Cor had walked a lifetime ago.

A bitter smile cracked open her lip: she would trade the professional opportunity of a lifetime for an operational SLIC and the sight of Danner and a squad of Mirrors humming over the snow on their sleds.

The fulfillment of his dream was half a lifetime away, on the other side of the Exile and deadliness he might not yet imagine.

But being winged in middle-age, after a lifetime of walking the ground, negated any diminuation in the wonder effect.

Pontifex Maximus would endow you with a splendid residence at the expense of the State, and as it is a lifetime position, the Domus Publica would be yours for life.