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livelihood
noun as in occupation
Example Sentences
"Here I lost the people closest to my heart—my brothers, my sons, my source of livelihood. The war killed everything beautiful inside us."
He said he was disappointed that the government could “just come through and wipe out people’s livelihoods like that.”
“Lively set out to destroy Plaintiffs’ livelihoods and businesses if they did not bend to her incessant demands,” the complaint alleges.
He also said Lively and her team had "attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons".
“There is no question that the fires’ impact extends to the business of film production and the livelihoods it sustains,” nonprofit FilmLA spokesperson Philip Sokoloski wrote in an email.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say livelihood?
Livelihood and the less formal word living, both refer to what one earns to keep (oneself) alive, but are seldom interchangeable within the same phrase: to threaten one’s livelihood; to earn one’s living. “To make a livelihood out of something” suggests making a business of it: to make a livelihood out of knitting hats. “To make a living” suggests making just enough to keep alive, and is particularly frequent in the negative: You cannot make a living out of that. Maintenance refers usually to what is spent for the living of another: to provide for the maintenance of someone. Maintenance occasionally refers to the allowance itself provided for livelihood: They are entitled to a maintenance from this estate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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