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ライフワーク [gai1]
1. [n]
▶ lifework
▶ life's work
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2839717 ライスワーク 1. work required to meet one's daily expenses; earning one's daily bread



History:
3. A 2013-09-24 08:29:40  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2013-09-24 06:25:04  Richard Warmington <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Note also the Tanaka example:
その学者はライフワークを続けた。	The scholar carried on his lifework.
1. A* 2013-09-24 06:22:42  Richard Warmington <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Spelling:
US:
Webster ~ lifework: the entire or principal work of one's lifetime; 
also :  a work extending over a lifetime
.
UK etc.:
Encarta (UK edition): life's work = (UK, Australia, New Zealand, 
Canada) product of somebody's working life: something that is the 
product, result, or culmination of somebody's working life.
lifework = same as 'life's work' (North America)
  Diff: 
@@ -10,1 +10,2 @@
-<gloss>life-work</gloss>
+<gloss>lifework</gloss>
+<gloss>life's work</gloss>

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