Livelihood
a livelihood (noun) - a source of money and income such as a job that allows you to buy the things that you need
Example sentences:
* His fishing boat was his main source of livelihood.
* Fishermen depend on the sea for their livelihood.
* Since his workshop was in his home, when it burned to the ground, he lost both his home and his livelihood.
* How are you planning to secure your livelihood in old age?
* The new dam threatened fishing in the area, the only means of livelihood for most farmers.
* Fundamental Buddhist principles include: 1) Right view, 2) right aim, 3) right speech, 4) right action, 5) right livelihood, 6) right effort, 7) right mindfulness, 8) right contemplation.
* Laws sponsored by the agribusiness lobby are threatening the livelihood of small farmers.
* The livelihood of people who forage for mushrooms in the forest depends on forest conservation.
* The scarcity of non-motorized vehicles threatens the livelihood of many small farmers who cannot transport their products to market.
* During the Great Depression the livelihood of many workers was threatened.
* Sam is happy with the boost to his livelihood that the extra work generated.
* Their livelihood depends on their annual rice harvest.
* Artists face the continual problem of creating works that are new and challenging, their very livelihood relies on their their creative powers.
* If agribusiness dumps huge quantities of food on the market, the livelihood of small farmers will be destroyed.
* Farming has always provided a securer livelihood than working in factories that will close during economic downturns.
* The forests will go on providing a livelihood to the villagers for as long as they are permitted to stand.
* Since the factory is closing down, I'm just going to find another way of earning a livelihood.
* Small traditional fishing communities are slowly making their way to the big city as they lose their fishing livelihood for ever.
* For the football player, his leg was his livelihood.
* My livelihood has been taken by the unions.
* When an unnamed bicycle cabbie in Ho Chi Minh City has his bike and livelihood stolen from him, he finds himself drawn deeper into a terrifying world of crime.
* Criminals do not have an honourable livelihood.
* He has taken away my livelihood and the enjoyment I had planned for my retirement
* It was a happy company that supplied a lot of people with a livelihood.
* Egg farmers Bob and Patty Smith's livelihood went rotten back in the Eighties.
* Their homes, their cars, their health and livelihood have been shattered, their future mortgaged to the bank.
* He's getting away with murder and I'm fed up with them costing me my livelihood.
* Those living where this large and powerful company does business may suffer loss of property, of livelihood, of life. That scenario creates its own imperative for action. But
* Economic specialists took a disinterested, analytical tone when the livelihood of millions was threatened.
* Middle Americans were anxious about their present and future livelihood.
* Every person who depends solely on manual labor for their livelihood dreads robots and the promise of a fully automated future.
* His parents and grandparents had made their livelihood farming the arid west Texas soil.
* People feel that their livelihood is threatened by the loss of their jobs.
* At first, we really didn't think anything about the political decision that we later came to realize endangered all our livelihoods.
