lifer

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lif·er

(lī′fər)

n. Slang

1. A prisoner serving a life sentence.

2. One who has spent an entire career working in a given field or in a single organization, especially in the military.

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lifer

(ˈlaɪfə)

informal a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

lif•er

(ˈlaɪ fər)

n. Informal.

1. a person sentenced to or serving a term of life imprisonment.

2. a person committed to a professional lifetime career in the military.

[1820–30]

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Noun

lifer - a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment

convict, yard bird, yardbird, con, inmate - a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

Translations

ergastolano

lifer

[ˈlaɪfəʳ] N → presidiario m de por vida, condenado/a m/f a cadena perpetua

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lifer

[ˈlaɪfə^r] n → condamné(e) m/f à perpète life raft life-raft [ˈlaɪfrɑːft] n → radeau m de sauvetagelife-saver lifesaver [ˈlaɪfseɪvə^r] n

(medically) to be a life-saver → sauver des vies
The cervical smear test is a lifesaver → Le frottis cervical sauve des vies.

(= lifeguard) → secouriste mf, sauveteur/euse m/flife-saving [ˈlaɪfseɪvɪŋ]

n → secourisme m

modif [drug, operation, treatment] → salvateur/tricelife science n → sciences fpl de la vielife sentence n → peine f de réclusion à perpétuitélife-size [ˈlaɪfsaɪz] life-sized [ˈlaɪfsaɪzd] adj [statue, model, painting] → grandeur nature inv

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lifer

n (inf) → Lebenslängliche(r) mf (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lifer

[ˈlaɪfəʳ] n (fam) → ergastolano/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.'

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He was tried again for prison breaking, and got made a Lifer."

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It would also be helpful to the reader if the authors discussed how they could expand on the survey to states with different demographics for its female lifer population or even tried to compare results from the Georgia survey to other areas.

Women Lifers: Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars

The rulings, which took place between 2010 and 2016, have banned mandatory life-without-parole sentences for teenagers, giving thousands of juvenile lifers around the country the chance of release.

Life AFTER Life

Meanwhile, there is Anja, another lifer who has to watch her mother continue to live as a shell, as her misaligned artificial organs shut down slowly one by one, leaving her a comatose, brain-dead body that is literally fading even though its artificial heart does not stop beating.

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Lifer is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, and a graduate of the Rollins College Crummer School of Business with a Masters of Business Administration.

Nancy Lifer joins Renasant Bank as VP

Robert Mochrie, defending, told the judge:"He is a lifer and he knows what will be the effect of his sentence today.

Man freed from life sentence attacks again

I also took advantage of quieter moments during exercise and association periods either in mine or one of the lifer's cells or on the exercise yard where we were able to talk in depth.

Doing time with lifers: a reflective study of life sentence prisoners

As a lifer with no parole application until 2027, Manson is not entitled to conjugal visits.

Lifer Manson loses chance to wed in jail

In short, country lifers were composed of those concerned with the increasing marginalization of those who live from the land.

Yeoman citizens: the country life association and the reinvention of democratic legitimacy

It was set up in 2010 to offer convicts a chance of early release after a lifer challenged the system at the European Court of Human Rights.