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livelihood

/lahyv-lee-hood/US // ˈlaɪv liˌhʊd //UK // (ˈlaɪvlɪˌhʊd) //

生活,生计,民生,生活方式

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally; living: to earn a livelihood as a tenant farmer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounoccupation

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • It’s a monumental failing that we have made restaurant owners and workers choose between their livelihoods and their lives.

  • Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.

  • Every generation of online creators has been through some version of this crisis, with corporate decisions destroying their livelihoods or fracturing their communities.

  • However, miners still face harsh conditions and must be supported by more livelihood and jobs programs.

  • To never, ever, ever put my livelihood in a position where I depended on white people liking me.

  • Ebony had been 12 when her mother was suddenly deprived of her livelihood.

  • It is often directly related to your income or livelihood and I take it very seriously.

  • The government tells these people that they have to be responsible for their own livelihood, then denies them the right to work.

  • He was used to finding himself suddenly cut off from the means of livelihood.

  • I judge that of nearly thirty thousand people who live here not ten thousand have any regular employment or means of livelihood.

  • The property of other people was their chief source of livelihood, and the streets, or the jails, were their homes.

  • Lastly, he began to feel some anxiety as to his future livelihood when his course at the Conservatoire should have come to an end.

  • The parish must keep them, it was often said; and they did not care to obtain an honest livelihood by the sweat of their brow.