Definition of "life-work" []

• The work of a lifetime; the employment or labor to which one's life is or has been devoted. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Our neighbors in Westchester, New Jersey, Vermont and Pennsylvania, awaiting cresting rivers, homes in shambles, dear ones gone, life-work damaged."
• "On one occasion the conversation turned on his life-work when Mr. Mayo asked: Do you know why Beachwood is Beachwood?"
• "And if you want to, you can go from there to the Lewis formula website to see what it says about your life-work balance (I daren't)."