livelihood
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liˌhʊd noun
a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.
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| —n | |
| occupation or employment | |
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Livelihood
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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Word Origin & History
livelihood
c.1300, livelode "means of keeping alive," from O.E. lifad "course of life," from lif "life" + lad "way, course" (see load). Spelling assimilated 16c. to words in -hood. Earlier livelihood was a different word, meaning "liveliness."
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Example sentences
If you could cure his defect, he would be without a means of subsistence, he would have no livelihood.
With little means of subsistence or livelihood in the delta countryside, many of the tribal members have migrated to the cities.
More than half the working population depends upon the ocean for its livelihood.
The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek.
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