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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Chapek was a Disney lifer who was skilled at running operations, but who struggled to embody the more creative, charismatic leadership that Disney needed.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
The company didn’t name a successor and instead appointed two executives as interim co-CEOs to replace Gelsinger, a former Intel lifer who has been CEO for only three years.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Leyland was among the last of his kind, a baseball lifer who was the son of a factory worker and worked offseason odd jobs to make ends meet during his long tenure as a player and coach in the minor leagues.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024
Gelsinger was a lifer who joined the company at age 18 and spent 30 years on the job, from 1979 to 2009, before returning to lead the company in 2021.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 Dec. 2024
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
The company didn’t name a successor and instead appointed two executives as interim co-CEOs to replace Gelsinger, a former Intel lifer who has been CEO for only three years.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Leyland was among the last of his kind, a baseball lifer who was the son of a factory worker and worked offseason odd jobs to make ends meet during his long tenure as a player and coach in the minor leagues.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 3 Aug. 2024
Gelsinger was a lifer who joined the company at age 18 and spent 30 years on the job, from 1979 to 2009, before returning to lead the company in 2021.
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Lifer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lifer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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