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Breadwinning

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The earning of a household's primary income. uncountable

    "This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning."

Etymology

From bread + winning. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”), Dutch broodwinning (“profession”).

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