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set for life

set for life adjective: possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.

Adjective

set for life

  1. (idiomatic) Possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.
    • In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.1938 November 11, Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough”, in The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, Florida, retrieved 20 Dec 2008, page A1
    • Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday airbus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45

set for life meaning in Bengali

set for life in Bengali

সারাজীবনের জন্য পর্যাপ্ত সম্পদ

Questions about set for life

What does set for life mean?
Set for life means possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.
What is set for life in Bengali?
Set for life in Bengali is সারাজীবনের জন্য পর্যাপ্ত সম্পদ. See Set for life meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is set for life?
Set for life is an adjective.

Words near set for life in the dictionary

  1. set fire to
  2. set fire unto
  3. set fire upon
  4. set foot
  5. set foot on land
  6. set for life
  7. set forth
  8. set forward
  9. set forwards
  10. set free
  11. set function

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