Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lifetime job

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: life-time job
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.

American usage

Example Sentences

"So, while choice of military service as a lifetime-job preference should be indicative of an orientation to military life, the reverse is not true: many people may be predisposed to service life without expressing it as a job preference."
"The lifetime-job program was one of the concessions that the UAW won from Ford, and later from General Motors, in return for labor cost savings during contract negotiations […] Perhaps it is this rethinking of labor’s needs, on the parts of both unions and management, that will surface as the most important gain from the lifetime-job experiment."
"Toyota Creates Work Contracts Challenging Lifetime-Job System"

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

lifetime jobs (plural)

Synonyms

job for life

Questions

What does lifetime job mean?: A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.

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