livelihood
IPA: ɫˈaɪvɫihʊd
noun
- A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).
- (now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate.
- (obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
- (obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.
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Examples of "livelihood" in Sentences
- The high schoolers say the landscape changes when a livelihood is at stake.
- Now their livelihood is being jeopardized and I think we need to support them.
- You get your livelihood from the masters of society, and whoever feeds a man is that man's master.
- Also when your livelihood is in a creative field, especially if you work for yourself, the work never ends.
- Then payouts to big oil execs and the fisherman who make their livelihood from a single shrimp boat are oil out of luck.
- Greg Sandoval looks at the growing fear among local TV stations that their livelihood is at risk in part due to the rise of the Internet.
- Or that for the state to arrest someone, or deprive them of livelihood, is no less repugnant simply because it does not reach the level of physical torture?
- Obama and the dems will pass something, their political livelihood is dependent on it, but alot less than the monstrosity they are currently advocating. truthsayer
- "It's ironic for a journalist, someone whose livelihood is protected by the First Amendment, to be seemingly threatening to curtail the speech of a military person," said James Naughton, president of the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in St. Petersburg, Fla.
- What distinguishes a merchant from other trades, is that he makes his livelihood from the profit of exchanging of goods none of which he has produced or contributed toward producing; yet according to Smith, exchanges are made of equal value for equal value, hence according to his own laws, not only is every man not a merchant, but merchants cannot exist.
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