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

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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

Anja and Lea meet at a group set up to help people with suicidal thoughts, but this leads them to the actual Suicide Club, where a group of lifers are choosing to live the way they did before this change eating meat, drinking alcohol, finding a way to end their lives at their chosen time.

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These are as follows:--Short Puttable Exempt Adjustable Receipts, Series DBE-8002 (SPEARs) 'BBB+/F2'; Negative Outlook; --Long Inverse Floating Exempt Receipts Series DBE-8002 (LIFERs) 'BBB+'; Negative Outlook; and --Custodial Receipt, Series DBE-8002 (Custodial Receipt) 'BBB+'; Negative Outlook.

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The Lifers reside in Starkville and attend First Presbyterian Church in Starkville.

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The plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging Maryland's system of parole as it applies tojuvenile lifers say they have not been able to reach a settlement agreement with the state and have asked a judge to lift the stay on the case.<br />"No just reason exists to continue the stay, particularly considering the long delays in this matter resulting from the protracted stay while the individual Plaintiffs remain incarcerated with no meaningful opportunity for release under an unconstitutional system," the plaintiffs stated Friday in a letter to the court.

Plaintiffs in juvenile lifers case ask federal judge to lift stay

The two death-row convicts-Kaiyim and Saiful Islam - and two lifers - Golam Mostafa and HM Kibria - were acquitted.

Court upholds death for League activists

All of the lifers were very supportive, giving their full consent with a shared view that the public needed to be made aware about the truth of their predicament of being a lifer.