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shelf life Definition

shelf life

noun

the length of time a packaged food, chemical preparation, etc. can be stored without deteriorating

shelf-life Quotes

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

—Ignatieff, Michael

A shelf life somewhere between butter and yoghurt.

—Trillin, Calvin Marshall