effective life
noun[C]
ACCOUNTINGukus→economic life:
Adepreciatingassetis anassetthat has alimitedeffectivelife, and that canreasonablybeexpectedtodeclineinvalueover thetimethat it is used.
Examplesofeffective life
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The diamond depositseffectivelifewas estimated to be about 50 years from the time the plant was put into operation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mine has an effective radius of 20 meters andeffectivelifeof 2 years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The foundation provides programs to enhance student success, promote productive citizenship through community service, and developeffectivelifeskills.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sylimarin contained in them is aneffectivelife-saving agent even in cases of poisoning with a lethal dose of death cap mushroom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 2006 condition report it was determined that the bridge has reached the end of itseffectivelifeand should be replaced with a new bridge.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The legal life of the patent is assumed infinite, but theeffectivelifedepends on new discoveries that nontrivially improve on the existing useful invention.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This entrapment of radiation will result in an increasedeffectivelifetime for the upper laser level which is of importance for a large population inversion.
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Naturally theeffectivelifeof any particular ship depends on a number of material factors on which it would be unsafe to generalise.
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It practically doubles theeffectivelifeof the patent in the hands of the patentee.
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We thus come back to the lifeboat and the decked lifeboat as the only reallyeffectivelife-saving apparatus.
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