lifetime job

Definition

A job in which one remains for one's whole career until one's retirement.

Example Sentences

• "So, while choice of military service as a lifetime-job preference should be indicative of an orientation to military life, the reverse is not true: many people may be predisposed to service life without expressing it as a job preference."
• "The lifetime-job program was one of the concessions that the UAW won from Ford, and later from General Motors, in return for labor cost savings during contract negotiations […] Perhaps it is this rethinking of labor’s needs, on the parts of both unions and management, that will surface as the most important gain from the lifetime-job experiment."
• "Toyota Creates Work Contracts Challenging Lifetime-Job System"