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shelflife

shelflife is the alternative form of shelf life.

Meaning of shelf life

Noun

shelf life (plural shelf lives)

  1. The length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold.
  2. The maximum time a packaged material can be stored under specific conditions and still meet the performance requirements specified.
    Synonyms:
    storage life
  3. (figuratively) The length of time that something is popular or fashionable.
    • As earnest and heartfelt as Maynard's plea for the end of Harambe image macros is, his best course of action is probably just to wait a few more weeks until the joke has dried up. Harambe may have a better shelf life than Damn Daniel or whatever, but there's no way its got the legs of "Smooth."2016 August 22, “The Cincinnati Zoo Really Hates Your Harambe Memes”, in VICE, archived from the original on 27 May 2023

Forms of shelflife

pluralshelflives

Questions about shelflife

What is shelflife the alternative form of?
Shelflife is the alternative form of shelf life.

Words near shelflife in the dictionary

  1. shelfies
  2. shelfing
  3. shelflation
  4. shelflations
  5. shelfless
  6. shelflife
  7. shelflike
  8. shelflist
  9. shelflists
  10. shelflives
  11. shelfmark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shelflife (page history and authors); shelf life (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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