I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ comfortable , decent , good , honest
▪
He makes a good ~ as a builder.
▪ meagre/meager
▪
She eked out a meagre/meager ~ as an artist's model.
VERB + LIVING
▪ earn , make
▪
Her dream was to earn her ~ as a singer.
▪ eke out , scrape ( esp. BrE ), scrape together ( esp. BrE ), scratch
▪
They were forced to scratch a ~ by selling things on the streets.
▪ do sth for
▪
He asked what I did for a ~.
▪ provide
▪
Ten acres provides a decent ~ for a rural family.
II.
adj.
Living is used with these nouns: ↑ accommodation , ↑ animal , ↑ arrangement , ↑ artist , ↑ being , ↑ cell , ↑ composer , ↑ condition , ↑ corpse , ↑ creature , ↑ death , ↑ descendant , ↑ donor , ↑ entity , ↑ expense , ↑ faith , ↑ flesh , ↑ hell , ↑ image , ↑ legend , ↑ mammal , ↑ memorial , ↑ museum , ↑ nightmare , ↑ organism , ↑ proof , ↑ quarter , ↑ relative , ↑ room , ↑ soul , ↑ space , ↑ species , ↑ specimen , ↑ standard , ↑ testament , ↑ tissue , ↑ tradition , ↑ wage , ↑ will , ↑ writer