Definition of lifer
1 : a person sentenced to imprisonment for life
2 : a person who makes a career of one of the armed forces
3 : a person who has made a lifelong commitment (as to a way of life)
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Examples of lifer in a Sentence
He was a lifer at the factory.
Recent Examples of lifer from the Web
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Jeff Rosenstock is a 34-year-old punk-rock lifer who played one of the biggest gigs of his life at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park over the weekend.
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The fundraiser was canceled at the last minute by Chili’s national leadership after significant blowback from pro-lifers.
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These changes won't affect most of the lifer population, however and Louisiana will remain an outlier in doling out life-without-parole sentences.
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Warren, who lives and trains in Denver, is a Bellator lifer.
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Donaire went back to his trainer, Bazzel, a boxing lifer who was predictably skeptical.
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Simmons knew him as a lifer who did laundry in exchange for goods from the canteen.
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A total of 24 students graduated as lifers, having attended Charlotte Christian School for their entire academic career, beginning in first grade or before.
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Johnson is as close one can get to being a Butler lifer without actually being an alum of the university.
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First Known Use of lifer
1827
LIFER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of lifer for English Language Learners
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: a person who spends an entire career in the same job
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: a criminal who has been sentenced to spend the rest of his or her life in prison
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