a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
Origin of livelihood
before 1000; earlier liveliod, livelihod, alteration (by reanalysis as lively + -hood; compare obsolete livelihood liveliness) of Middle English livelod,Old English līflād conduct of life, way of life (see life, lode, load)
SYNONYMS FOR livelihood
sustenance, subsistence.
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synonym study for livelihood
See living.
Words nearby livelihood
live-in, live in an ivory tower, live in each other's pockets, live in sin, live it up, livelihood, live like a king, live load, livelong, lively, liven
Back in April, Togo launched a social welfare program using digital cash transfers as the government tried to help informal workers whose livelihoods had been disrupted by the pandemic and the accompanying lockdown.
Digital platforms have been a boon for social assistance in African countries during the pandemic|Yinka Adegoke|September 9, 2020|Quartz
The Democratic Party now has a crucial opportunity to join our fight and use their platform to ensure private equity can no longer destroy the livelihoods of workers left and right without any accountability.
Why the Democratic Party must make a clean break with Wall Street|matthewheimer|September 8, 2020|Fortune
It’s a monumental failing that we have made restaurant owners and workers choose between their livelihoods and their lives.
Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die?|Elazar Sontag|August 28, 2020|Eater
Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.
Some of Africa’s most important heritage sites will be lost to climate change without intervention|Nick Brooks|August 20, 2020|Quartz
Every generation of online creators has been through some version of this crisis, with corporate decisions destroying their livelihoods or fracturing their communities.
TikTok made him famous. Now he’s imagining a world without it|Abby Ohlheiser|August 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Ebony had been 12 when her mother was suddenly deprived of her livelihood.
Killed by Donald Sterling’s Racism|Michael Daly|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is often directly related to your income or livelihood and I take it very seriously.
These Are the 7 Types of Patients That Drive Your Doctor Totally Bananas|Dr. Jennifer Caudle|February 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The government tells these people that they have to be responsible for their own livelihood, then denies them the right to work.
New Report Exposes Trafficking Rings in Egypt’s Sinai|John Beck|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
How does violent crime affect the shopkeepers who rely on tourists for a livelihood?
‘Broadchurch’ Is Great TV for Fans of ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Doctor Who,’ and ‘Prime Suspect’|Andrew Romano|August 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rising seas could threaten the livelihood of that substantial part of the world's population which lives on or near coasts.
Margaret Thatcher Sounded the Alarm on Climate Change|David Frum|April 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Years must pass ere their trade can be restored to the proportions of a livelihood.
South African Memories|Lady Sarah Wilson
She is dependent for her livelihood upon her place at the Kensington Library.
The Drunkard|Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
Earning their livelihood thus basely, debauchery and crime constitute their every-day history.
Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862|Various
As long as there was a possibility that I'd be stranded in my own time, I wasn't going to lose my livelihood.
The Old Die Rich|Horace Leonard Gold
At the same time she began to array all the possibilities of a livelihood remaining open to her.