life expectancy
life expectancy · life expectancies
продолжительность жизни
Lebenserwartung
The amount of time one is expected to liveThe amount of time one is expected to live.
» People's life expectancy grows every year.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)The amount of time one is expected to live.
Lebenserwartung
продолжи́тельность жи́зниprodolžítelʹnostʹ žízni
an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)The amount of time something is expected to last.
Examples
15 sentencesPeople's life expectancy grows every year.
Algeria's average life expectancy has increased.
As recent research shows, the life expectancy in Japan is consistently increasing.
Life expectancy has been improving, most notably among the young and the poor.
Life expectancy has increased.
Translations
8 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
the amount of time one is expected to live:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the amount of time one is expected to live:
Forms
plural: life expectancies| Singular | life expectancy |
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regular
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedafterlifetime
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable