{
    "term": "lifetime",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the length of time that somebody lives or that something lasts",
            "sensetop": "in/during somebody's lifetimein the lifetime of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a lifetime of experience"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His diary was not published during his lifetime.",
                    "contextForm": "in/during somebody's lifetime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These spending commitments are not achievable in the lifetime of the present government.",
                    "contextForm": "in the lifetime of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Memories can **last a lifetime**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had spent a lifetime trying to please his father."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The veteran actor was honoured with a **lifetime achievement** award."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He received a **lifetime ban** from cycling after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a lifetime as a journalist in the trouble spots of the world, he retired to the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "College seems half a lifetime away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Christmas feels like a lifetime ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He devoted a lifetime to working with children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've seen many changes during my lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It seems a lifetime since we first met."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's hard to break the habits of a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Payments are based on expected lifetime income."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spent a lifetime in politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That’s more money than I’m likely to make in my entire lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The images are part of a lifetime's worth of photographs from Cohen's long career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The veteran director won a lifetime achievement award."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This watch should last you a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can live a whole lifetime and not witness such an event."
                },
                {
                    "text": "wisdom gained in the course of a long lifetime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Only two volumes of his poetry were published during his lifetime."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["long", "short", "entire"],
                "verb + lifetime": ["devote", "spend", "take (somebody)"],
                "lifetime + noun": ["achievement", "appointment", "employment"],
                "preposition": [
                    "after a lifetime",
                    "during somebody’s lifetime",
                    "in your lifetime"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the habits of a lifetime",
                    "a legend in your own lifetime",
                    "half a lifetime"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a wonderful opportunity, etc. that you are not likely to get again",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When she was offered the job she knew it was the chance of a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the trip/experience/opportunity of a lifetime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the holiday of a lifetime!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave the performance of a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The 25-year-old is just grateful for the chance of a lifetime."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to describe something special that is not likely to happen to you again",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a once-in-a-lifetime experience"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That sort of thing happens only once in a lifetime."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlaɪftaɪm/",
                "audio": "li/lifetime/lifetime__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈlaɪftaɪm/",
                "audio": "li/lifetime/lifetime__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}