cradle-to-grave

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cradle-to-grave (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Spanning an entire lifetime, from birth to death.
   • 2010, Salah El Haggar, Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 125:

     Unsustainable human activities are creating an open loop “cradle-to-grave” system that cannot continue and has one day to reach a conclusion. Closing the loop for renewable resources is the role of changing the “cradle-to-grave” concept to a “cradle-to-cradle” concept as discussed in chapter 1.

   • 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28:

     Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.

   • 2023 June 14, “Engineering a brighter future for UK rail”, in RAIL, number 985, page 52:

     The 'cradle-to-grave' approach that the company takes to rolling stock, which typically has an asset lifecycle of up to 35 years, has made the sector attractive to investors - […] .

Coordinate terms

• cradle-to-cradle