| LIF | the period from the present until death |
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| LIF | insurance paid to named beneficiaries when the insured person dies |
| LIF | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
| LIF | belt attaching you to some object as a restraint in order to prevent you from getting hurt |
| LIF | a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material |
| LIF | an art class using a live human model |
| LIF | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
| LIF | the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced |
| LIF | (law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it |
| LIF | life without beginning or end |
| LIF | an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities |
| LIF | (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms |