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joblives

joblives is the plural of joblife.

Meaning of joblife

Noun

joblife (usually uncountable, plural joblives)

  1. (usually) That portion of one's life in which one is gainfully employed.
    • As the joblife becomes a smaller percentage of the life cycles of most peoples, the traditions of social policy must adopt more adequate ways of social security.1973, Carroll J. Bourg, "Kaim-Caudle, P.R. Comparative Social Policy and Social Security: A Ten-Country Study" (review), Sociology: Reviews of New Books, Vols. 1-2, page 115
  2. (usually) The portion of one's life spent in the workplace.
    • An artist friend of mine recalls three examples in his own joblife where nervous apprehension was involved.1960, Fred Manchee, The Secret of Being a Somebody, New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 87

Questions about joblives

What is joblives the plural of?
Joblives is the plural of joblife.

Words near joblives in the dictionary

  1. joblife
  2. joblike
  3. Jobling
  4. joblist
  5. joblists
  6. joblives
  7. jobmaker
  8. jobmakers
  9. jobman
  10. jobmaster
  11. jobmasters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joblives (page history and authors); joblife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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