as in living
a way of earning money in order to live
Many fishermen believe that the new regulations threaten their livelihoods.
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Recent Examples of livelihood
That saved businesses billions of dollars without improving the livelihoods of Puerto Ricans.
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Nonprofits may help communities rebuild homes, restore livelihoods or address emotional trauma months – or even years – after a disaster occurs.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
That insult may or may not be true, but Los Angeles is also a very real place where working people live, people whose lives and livelihoods (and, yes, self-images, because one thing this city has always understood is that images are also actualities) have now been violently upended.
—Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
In 2023, Glamour spoke to creators about what a potential ban would mean for their livelihoods.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2025
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Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Nonprofits may help communities rebuild homes, restore livelihoods or address emotional trauma months – or even years – after a disaster occurs.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
That insult may or may not be true, but Los Angeles is also a very real place where working people live, people whose lives and livelihoods (and, yes, self-images, because one thing this city has always understood is that images are also actualities) have now been violently upended.
—Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
In 2023, Glamour spoke to creators about what a potential ban would mean for their livelihoods.
—Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for livelihood
Recent Examples of Synonyms for livelihood
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Pay: If a remote worker has to relocate to an area with a higher cost of living — such as Washington, DC — their locality pay would have to be adjusted.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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The courtyard was essential, a way for mostly Jewish immigrants to replace the tenement’s narrow, stinking air shaft with a form of genuinely gracious living.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Jan. 2025
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Critics of the move are concerned that many employers will see Trump’s action as a signal that no longer have to worry about facing penalties from discriminating in their employment practices.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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In addition, lingering questions about the value of postsecondary education, a greater number of nontraditional options for advanced education, and a continuing shift away from college degrees as an employment requirement all mean more downward pressures will be exerted on postsecondary enrollment.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Previous presidents have taken more significant steps to avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of self-dealing, including by putting their businesses in blind trusts.—
Lex Harvey, Auzinea Bacon and Matt Egan,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Some degree of predictability and institutional stability is the reason that the dollar is a global reserve currency, that the financial markets work, that domestic and foreign investment flows, people start businesses, plan long-term with savings and homeownership, start families.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Livelihood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livelihood. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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