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.

lifer

(ˈlaɪfə)

informal a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment

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

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

lifer

n (inf) → Lebenslängliche(r) mf (inf)

lifer

[ˈlaɪfəʳ] n (fam) → ergastolano/a

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

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They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer.

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

Lifer Manson loses chance to wed in jail

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.

Lifer released from prison

Being told that I was a lifer came as a great shock to me.

IN HIS OWN WORDS

But restrictive legislation on conditional release, and the overcrowding and precariousness of the Bulgarian prison system makes life hardly livable for some lifers.

Bulgaria: Inhuman Life Sentences Replace Death Penalty

This program brings together lifers with Temple students who come to the prison and earn credit for learning in this unique classroom.

Fink! still at large: Robert Johnson, Ph.D., an expert in criminal justice, has described the life of a lifer as a 'repetitive, bleak, and lonely existence, and that is on the good days.' How can psychiatrists who work with life without parole patients help them find meaning?

Lifer groups, which are increasingly common in American prisons since the 1960s, offer companionship as well as a vehicle for productive activities, including those that feature mentoring and "giving something back" to the next generation, to quote one interviewee.

Mature coping among life-sentenced inmates: an exploratory study of adjustment dynamics

In at least 22 states, lifers have almost no chance of being released, The Times reported in its Oct.

Plight of lifers needs attention

Lifers succeed through dogged determination, usually rising slowly through the ranks of public or private institutions.

One-Track Mind

A FORMER con - who served 12 years for heroin trafficking in Liverpool, Whitemoor and Full Sutton prisons - said that gay sex in prison is taboo, but it mostly goes on between lifers and jailed rent-boys selling sex for drugs.

LIFERS TARGET ADDICTS FOR 'TABOO' VISITS

One lifer even had his own clothes shop, from which he persuaded other convicts to buy clothes.