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LLL en · NOUN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:career) Initialism of lifelong learning.
   alt of lifelong learning
   • Lifelong learning (LLL), as we see it, is not a norm to prescribe, but an empirical reality to analyse and reconstruct. There are different processes of transformation at work in education, and there are many "lifelong educations" (Giere*). LLL in each society refers to the totality of learning activities which, for analytical purposes, can be broken into three specific constituent elements… 1995, Paul Bélanger, Ettore Gelpi, Lifelong Education, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 354:
   • If these ambitions are to become reality, various education and training practices need to support the aims of LLL. Research on possible transformations of national education and training systems into a state of lifelong learning should look into the policy interventions behind the efforts to put the systems on an LLL track. 2013, Ellu Saar, Odd Bjorn Ure, Lifelong Learning in Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:
   • Number of lines favourable to lifelong learning ("LLL") belonging to the main criteria divided between sub-categories, expressed in a percentage of the total number of lines in the curriculum for the basic school. 1978, Educational and Psychological Interactions, numbers 65–72, Department of Educational and Psychological Research, page 19:
   • Near-synonyms: continuing education, further education, adult education
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of left lower lobe (one of two lobes of the left lung).
   alt of left lower lobe
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of low-level language.
   alt of low-level language
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, rare, slang) Initialism of live, laugh, love.
   alt of laugh
   alt of live
   alt of love

Hypernyms

education · learning

Relateds

live and learn (learning) · you're never too old to learn (learning)

Synonyms

further education · continuing education · adult education

wikidata: Q368475

LLL en · PROPN

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1. La Leche League: international non-profit organisation that promotes breastfeeding.
   • The latter group, known as the La Leche League (LLL), produce a monthly bulletin which can be very useful in this regard, showing, as it does, a modern group of women in an affluent society who believe that breast feeding is worthwhile achieving. 1983 September 14, Derrick Brian Jelliffe, Child Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Fieldworkers, Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange, page 123:
   • The LLL promotes the idea of good mothering through the womanly art of breastfeeding. Some 1,000 mothers and 500 babies from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Johannesburg, South Africa, attended the three-day convention at the Denver Hilton. 1968 September 5, “La Leche League To Hear Report On Convention”, in The Norwalk Hour, page 9:
   • The La Leche League (LLL), formed in 1956—for women, by mothers—to provide education, practical guidance, and support for women in their efforts to breastfeed and "mother" their children. Mothers were empowered with new knowledge and trust from experienced mothers, and the LLL produced a book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, and continued its expansion internationally. 2021, Ruth A. Lawrence, Robert M. Lawrence, Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Professional, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 4:
   • The LLL's founders allied themselves with physicians, albeit unconventional ones, from its very inception. 2001, Jacqueline H. Wolf, Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

Synonyms

LLLI