lifetime job
lifetime job noun: a job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.
Noun
lifetime job (plural lifetime jobs)
- A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.
- 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.1972, Jerome Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, Young Men and Military Service, →ISBN, page 39
- 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...1984, John Diebold, Making the Future Work: Unleashing our Powers of Innovation for the Decades Ahead, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 300–301
- Synonyms:
- job for life
Synonyms of lifetime job
- job for life
Forms of lifetime job
| plural | lifetime jobs |
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Questions about lifetime job
- What does lifetime job mean?
- Lifetime job means a job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.
- What part of speech is lifetime job?
- Lifetime job is a noun.
- What is the plural of lifetime job?
- The plural of lifetime job is lifetime jobs.
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