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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of years that an individual is expected to live as determined by statistics.
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- noun of a person The
amount oftime one isexpected tolive . - noun figuratively, by extension The amount of time something is expected to
last .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities
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