livelihood
suomi-englanti sanakirjalivelihood englannista suomeksi
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livelihood englanniksi
A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). (defdate)
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(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene).
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons) a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.
1716, (w), ''The Free-Holder,'' London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May(nbs)14, p.(nbs)245,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806457.0001.000
- Trade (..) employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.
(RQ:Gaskell Wives and Daughters)
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2013, Matthew Claughton, ''The Guardian'', (letter), 25 April:
- The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.
(RQ:Tyndale NT)?
Liveliness; appearance of life.
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well) the tiranny of her ſorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.
The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour. (defdate)
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