shelf life
the term or period during which a stored commodity remains effective, useful, or suitable for consumption: Many medicines have a very short shelf life.
Origin of shelf life
1- Also called storage life.
Words Nearby shelf life
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How to use shelf life in a sentence
The current Covid-19 vaccines available do have a limited shelf life, so avoiding waste is important — better to get it in someone’s arm than to throw it out.
For example, the HotHands warmers we listed above have a shelf life of three to four years.
Best hand warmers: Block the chill during your favorite winter activities | PopSci Commerce Team | February 10, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSpeed is critical, because these vaccines need to be administered within the approved shelf life of six months.
India is betting on glitchy software to inoculate 300 million people by August | Lindsay Muscato | February 10, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewOnce its short shelf life of 12 hours is over, it has to be tossed.
I jumped the queue to get an expiring vaccine. Did I do the right thing? | Niall Firth | February 1, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewDemand for packaged foods with long shelf lives has surged as shuttered restaurants and the fear of contracting the virus forced shoppers into stocking their pantries and cooking at home more often.
But others argue that its shelf life is longer than we might think.
An Ode to the Trench Coat: The Burberry vs. The Lloyd Dobler | Sara Lieberman | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut done right, they can extend her shelf-life in a hyper-competitive industry that revolves around youthfulness.
Should We Give Kim Novak a Break on the Oscar Plastic Surgery Hate-Tweeting? | Lizzie Crocker | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe new Twinkies carry an extended shelf life of 45 days, versus two weeks previously (no, they don't last forever).
Even without any changes, most experts predict a much longer shelf life for Idol than the current media narrative predicts.
Furthermore, pronouncements by Barack Obama have a notoriously short shelf life.
Thus, a warhead loaded with the material has an indefinite shelf-life.
U.S. Patent 4,293,314: Gelled Fuel-Air Explosive | Bertram O. Stull
British Dictionary definitions for shelf life
the length of time a packaged food, chemical, etc, will last without deteriorating
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