Word Finder - livelihood

definition

A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).

example

an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain a good livelihood

synonyms

• living
• subsistence
• sustenance

definition

Property which brings in an income; an estate.

definition

Liveliness; appearance of life.

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The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.

Their rule was that they had to earn their livelihood, and must not beg.

He went to Brussels, where for nearly thirty years he earned a scanty livelihood by his writings.

Fishing and hunting are the most important sources of livelihood.

He endured great hardships, but secured a livelihood by teaching and writing.

These sons of poor peasants, artisans or tradesmen are already disposed to narrow fanaticism, and generally take up study as a means of livelihood rather than from genuine religious interest.

As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure.

At the age of twenty he was gaining his livelihood in the streets of Moscow as a vendor of meat-pies.

But, whatever means each head of a family adopted to get a livelihood, he must pay the priest's dues.

The people, destitute of other means of livelihood, crowded to the relief works.

Members of the household who were not directly responsible for the farms could look out for their livelihood as they pleased.

Property necessary for one's livelihood must not be taken.

At the close of his term Colfax returned to private life under a cloud, and during the remainder of his lifetime earned a livelihood by delivering popular lectures.

This determined her to have recourse to letters as a means of livelihood.

In 1757 whaling was the only livelihood of the people of Nantucket; and in 1750-1775, although whaling fleets were in repeated danger from French and Spanish privateers, the business, with the allied coopers and other trades, steadily increased.

The only inhabited districts are the shores of the fjords, where grass grows capable of supporting sheep; but a large proportion of the population gain their livelihood by fishing.

Of humble origin, he appears to have earned a livelihood as a porter; hence his nickname of "Sack-bearer" (IaKK&s, for vaKK040pos).

Vegetation is scanty, but bears, foxes and other Arctic animals, geese, swans, &c., provide means of livelihood for a few Samoyed hunters.

To such a miserable pretence of freedom they all preferred servitude, which at least ensured them a livelihood; and the middle class of freemen thus became gradually extinct.

A small post at the National Library, together with his sister's savings, furnished him with the means of livelihood.

Many people view income protection insurance as dead money but not having it jeopardizes ones livelihood.

One of the aims of the Project is to help the farmers develop a viable financial livelihood.

A good forest economy would be owned locally. It would afford a decent livelihood to local people.

From a greengrocer he learnt arithmetic; and higher branches were begun under one of those wandering scholars who gained a livelihood by cures for the sick and lessons for the young.

He endured great hardships, but secured a livelihood by teaching and writing; he was a correspondent of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung.

Additionally, online stores powered by Yahoo and Google and Amazon exist where small vendors can set up storefronts and sell to the world, as a hobby or a livelihood.

The possibility is actually very troubling to authors who depend upon copyright laws to protect their livelihood.

Almost as quickly as skateboarding had gained popularity, the sport took a sudden nosedive, threatening Tony Hawk's livelihood.

All farmers want to be good stewards of the land, because it is the land that gives them their livelihood and allows all of us to eat so well.

If you knew your professional livelihood depended on your ability to slim down to your pre-baby weight as fast as possible, you'd be dieting like your life depended on it.

This may involve volunteer coaching your favorite sport, working at your local library or children's recreation program, or teaching a skill you aspired to spend your livelihood on.

However, there were just as many authors that offered readers a chilling warning - proceed and you risk the livelihood of future generations.

It was not sufficient to secure them, as the government had done, peace and ample means of livelihood.

Including families and domestic servants, 2,605,000 persons or 13.5% of the total population were dependent on industries for their livelihood in Hungary in 1900.

His reception was, however, cold, the bishop advising him to seek a livelihood in the town.

At Lichfield, however, Johnson could find no way of earning a livelihood.

The first was far less than the work free men did for a livelihood, the second larger, the third excessive, so that convicts often left prisons with thirty, forty, even eighty pounds in their pockets.

At the same time it is but fair to say that bee-culture in the United Kingdom, if limited to honey-production alone, is not sufficiently safe for entire reliance to be placed on it for obtaining a livelihood.

They are forced to migrate and often end up selling their bodies to earn a livelihood.

Of the population of France some 17,000,000 depend upon agriculture for their livelihood, though only about 6,500,000 are engaged in work on the land.

Crowds of wanderers were to be met on every road; Germany, Holland and Italy were full of Jews who, pack on shoulder, were seeking a precarious livelihood at a time when peddling was neither lucrative nor safe.

Mill's work at the India House, which was henceforth his livelihood, did, not come before the public; hence some have scouted his political writings as the work of an abstract philosopher, entirely unacquainted with affairs.

In the year 202 a persecution arose, in which the father of Origen became a martyr, and the family lost their livelihood.

A secondary object of the cleruchies was social or agrarian, to provide a source of livelihood to the poorer Athenians.

Suffrage is extended to all Mexican citizens who possess honest means of livelihood, the age limit being 18 for the married and 21 for the unmarried.

Their cupidity is mitigated by generosity; their natural indolence by the necessity, especially among the peasantry, to work hard to gain a livelihood.

St Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands, and only to have recourse to begging when they could not earn their livelihood by work.

Intended primarily as a measure to secure the safety of the frontier, and regarded by the British government chiefly as a better means of affording a livelihood to a few thousands of the surplus population, this emigration scheme accomplished a far greater work than its authors contemplated.

In addition to agriculture, the breeding of livestock, more especially sheep, camels, horses and asses, fishing in the waters of the lower Tarim, and the transportation of merchandise are all important means of livelihood.

If peace were made, the armies would return home and the directors would have to face the exasperation of the rank and file who had lost their livelihood, as well as the ambition of generals who could in a moment brush them aside.

The eider duck, which breeds on the islands of Breit51fjor6r, is a source of livelihood to the inhabitants, as are also the many kinds of sea-fowl which breed on the sea-cliffs.