Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Means of support; subsistence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Liveliness; cheerfulness.
- noun Way of life; living; means of maintaining life; support of life; maintenance; the occupation which furnishes means of support.
- noun Synonyms Support, Subsistence, etc. See
living .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Liveliness; appearance of life.
- noun Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; the means for support of life; maintenance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
liveliness ;appearance oflife
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the financial means whereby one lives
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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The high schoolers say the landscape changes when a livelihood is at stake.
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Then payouts to big oil execs and the fisherman who make their livelihood from a single shrimp boat are oil out of luck.
Senator: BP CEO balks at paying damages beyond $75 million cap 2010
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"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.
No Gun Ri 2010
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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.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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You get your livelihood from the masters of society, and whoever feeds a man is that man's master.
Chapter 29 2010
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Also when your livelihood is in a creative field, especially if you work for yourself, the work never ends.
All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Author Insight: Kim Johnson Gross 2010
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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
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Now their livelihood is being jeopardized and I think we need to support them.
Wine In Grocery Stores: Coercion? Boycotts? Intimidation? 2009
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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?
oroboros commented on the word livelihood
A crook on ritalin. --from Wiley's Dictionary,
August 11, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word livelihood
Not, in its principal sense, a compound of either 'lively' or the suffix '-head'. It's 'life' + the word giving modern English 'load', 'lode': thus meaning "provisions for life".
In the 1500s a transparent homophone meaning "liveliness" was created.
September 8, 2009