living(MONEY)

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Earning money
assessable
bank
base pay
basic
basic income
disposable income
hand over fistidiom
in arrearsidiom
line your pocket(s)idiom
make an honest livingidiom
performance-related
pro bono
pro rata
profit from something
prorate
pull
raise
retainer
revenue
sick pay

livelihood | American Dictionary

livelihood
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈlɑɪv·liˌhʊd/
the way you earn the money you need to pay for food, a place to live, clothing, etc.:
[ C ]They earn their livelihood from farming.

livelihood | Business English

livelihood
noun[ C,usually singular, or U ]
uk /ˈlaɪvlihʊd/us
the money a person needs to pay for food, a place to live, etc. and the way of earning this money:
The falling orders for new ships mean that many shipyard workers are likely to lose their livelihood.
The drought is threatening the livelihood of farmers in the region.
If your livelihood depends on selling cars, boats, and furniture to people, you don't want people to save.

Examples of livelihood

livelihood
The extensive chapter on abolition, for example, skims over modes of liberation, the roles of families and post-liberation livelihoods.
Farming, fishing, and (for a time early in the 1900s) the timber industry have provided the primary livelihood for residents.
They received no material support from their surviving children, and had no other form of income or livelihood.
People would not want to jeopardise their livelihood by falsifying their reports or by fiddling with the coupons, or so the logic went.
At the same time, urban livelihood came under pressure with the changing place of irregular settlements in the urban environment.
Lifecourse transitions are not necessarily linear and irreversible, and parent-child livelihoods may remain critically inter-dependent even after children marry and leave home.
But an improved variety will only bring a marginal and small contribution to their livelihood.
Livelihood activities are adapted in line with general societal transformations, reflecting decades of influence by forces of modernisation.
The latter live in a narrow social and physical environment closely tied to land because it provides the only means of livelihood.
What is more, sustainable livelihoods for the poor remain a distant dream.
People's livelihoods are divine gifts that require effort, not idle submission to nature.
These poor people often depend on environmental degradation for their livelihoods.
Next, the resulting impacts on household food security, farmers' incomes and livelihoods are discussed.
She finds that the livelihood approach facilitates the analysis of the multiple points of stress which constrain household choices.
Many poor people, particularly in developing countries, rely on natural resources for their livelihood, and these people are very vulnerable to deterioration in the resource.
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Collocations withlivelihood

livelihood

These are words often used in combination with livelihood.

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alternative livelihood
One explanation for this is the growing landlessness in rural areas due to population pressure and limited alternativelivelihood opportunities.
decent livelihood
This makes it increasingly difficult for them to obtain customers and so earn a decent livelihood.
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