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)
Examples of lifer in a Sentence
He was a lifer at the factory.
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In any event, auction house lifers told me, the secondary art market is a race to the bottom.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Two reasons Mad had so many lifers were their personal loyalty to Gaines and their love of his lavish trips.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Barra, a General Motors lifer, took the helm at GM in January 2014.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
The first-gen social media lifers—I’m including myself in this—are going to have such bad PTSD from being so online for so long.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
Two reasons Mad had so many lifers were their personal loyalty to Gaines and their love of his lavish trips.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Barra, a General Motors lifer, took the helm at GM in January 2014.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
The first-gen social media lifers—I’m including myself in this—are going to have such bad PTSD from being so online for so long.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for lifer
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“Lifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lifer. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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