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LIFE EXPECTANCY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does life expectancy mean?

• LIFE EXPECTANCY (noun)
The noun LIFE EXPECTANCY has 1 sense:

1. an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

Familiarity information: LIFE EXPECTANCY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LIFE EXPECTANCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("life expectancy" is a kind of...):

anticipation; expectancy (something expected (as on the basis of a norm))

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