LIVELIHOOD


Meaning of LIVELIHOOD in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

destroy

But some boatmen fear the new regulations could destroy their livelihoods .

Campesinos are hard hit by the economic crisis and government forces have deliberately destroyed the livelihood of many subsistence farming families.

Foot and mouth does not kill but they know it could destroy their livelihoods and their way of life.

earn

Professionals and Amateurs About one-fifth of parochial directors of music earn their livelihood through music.

To earn my livelihood as artist in Berne.

lose

But farmer Ken Sawkins says that he will lose his livelihood if the biking is stopped.

Thousands of fishermen stand to lose their livelihoods .

After the case was adjourned, the couple said that if they lost their home, they'd lose their livelihood too.

threaten

The Pembrokeshire Shell Fishermen's Association challenge the claim, and warn that any such ban will threaten the livelihoods of locals.

But it also is threatening the livelihoods of many small business operators in San Diego and elsewhere.

How could one river cause so much damage and threaten the livelihoods of so many farmers and landowners?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Farmers depend on the weather for their livelihood .

Fishermen are angry about the new EC fishing regulations because they feel that their livelihood is being threatened.

Most of the people here depend on tourism for their livelihood .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But some boatmen fear the new regulations could destroy their livelihoods.

Free labour merges imperceptibly with slavery; work becomes servitude; livelihood is transformed into strange new forms of bondage.

He wondered if they resented the war for bringing in a new order that was depriving them of their livelihood .

In addition, we angered the professional porters, who attacked us, saying we were taking away their livelihood .

People do work without the institutional system of capitalism and they are assured of a reasonable livelihood .

Seepage into the local reservoir is already killing fish on which local livelihoods depend.

There are many who have suffered personal disaster and whose livelihoods have been destroyed by natural catastrophe or invasion.

Through the ages priests, holy men and teachers have depended for their livelihood upon the support of rulers and the community.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.