working life
English
Noun
working life (plural working lives)
- The period of one's life spent in employment, between leaving school and retirement.
- 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
- 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.
- 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
period spent in employment
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References
- “working life”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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