livelihood 
live·li·hood (līv′lē ho̵od′)
livelihood
n.
The supporting of life
living, sustenance, maintenance; see subsistence 1.The means of supporting life
means, circumstances, resources; see subsistence 2.
Converse of object
- threaten: The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.
- destroy: The global crisis has destroyed the livelihoods of 25 million coffee producers around the world.
- jeopardize: Many people view income protection insurance as dead money but not having it jeopardizes ones livelihood.
- devastate: This is a significant step forward in the fight against a major African livestock disease, which currently devastates the livelihoods of many.
- sustain: India produces 2.5 million tons of cotton each year, sustaining livelihoods of over 17 million people.
- earn: They are forced to migrate and often end up selling their bodies to earn a livelihood.
Adjective modifier
- sustainable: The need is to create sustainable livelihoods for everyone.
- rural: The dash for exports is also threatening rural livelihoods.
- viable: One of the aims of the Project is to help the farmers develop a viable financial livelihood.
- decent: A good forest economy would be owned locally. It would afford a decent livelihood to local people.
- improved: Within the ( natural products ) sector there are clear opportunities for entrepreneurial development and improved livelihoods for many poor rural communities.
- alternative: These may well involve high import costs, ecological damage and displace alternative livelihoods.
Modifies a noun
- diversification: Migration has become an important livelihood diversification strategy in small farm households.
- strategy: Migration has become an important livelihood diversification strategy in small farm households.
Noun used with modifier
- household: However, ensuring adequate household livelihoods is only part of the picture.
Possessives
- farmer: Many poor countries are powerless to stop a flood of cheap food imports, which threaten farmers ' livelihoods.
Preposition: of
- farmer: Develop a viable business model that supports the livelihoods of Indian farmers.
- million: Stopping the spread of the disease is crucial in order to save the livelihoods of millions of people.
- fisherman: Above all, it knowingly forces vessels into insolvency and destroys the livelihoods of fishermen and their families.
- thousand: The Common Fisheries Policy has destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen.
If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.
If all the Labourers in aVillage breed up several Sons to the same work there will be too many Labourers to cultivate the Lands belonging to theVillage, and the surplus Adults must go to seek a livelihood elsewhere, which they generally do in Cities.
These Mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to beg Sustenance for their helpless Infants; who, as they grow up either turnThieves for want of Work; or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain; or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.
Browse dictionary entries near livelihood
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