How is livelihood in America these day?
Source: tatoeba (243775)
Livelihood
//ˈlaɪvlihʊd//
Synonyms for "livelihood" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
69 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مَعَاش noun (means of supporting oneself)
- مَعِيشَة noun (means of supporting oneself)
Bulgarian
3 entries- препита́ние noun (means of supporting oneself)
- прехра́на noun (means of supporting oneself)
- средства за преживя́ване noun (means of supporting oneself)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 生計 /生计 noun (means of supporting oneself)
- 飯碗 /饭碗 noun (means of supporting oneself)
Czech
2 entries- obživa noun (means of supporting oneself)
- živobytí noun (means of supporting oneself)
Danish
1 entries- levebrød noun (means of supporting oneself)
Dutch
1 entries- levensonderhoud noun (means of supporting oneself)
Esperanto
1 entries- vivrimedo noun (means of supporting oneself)
Faroese
4 entries- livibreyð noun (means of supporting oneself)
- lívsbreyð noun (means of supporting oneself)
- lívsuppihald noun (means of supporting oneself)
- útkoma noun (means of supporting oneself)
Finnish
3 entries- elanto noun (means of supporting oneself)
- elinkeino noun (means of supporting oneself)
- toimeentulo noun (means of supporting oneself)
French
2 entries- gagne-pain noun (means of supporting oneself)
- subsistance noun (means of supporting oneself)
German
4 entries- Auskommen noun (means of supporting oneself)
- Erwerbsquelle noun (means of supporting oneself)
- Existenzgrundlage noun (means of supporting oneself)
- Lebensgrundlage noun (means of supporting oneself)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌽𐍃 noun (means of supporting oneself)
Hebrew
1 entries- מחיה noun (means of supporting oneself)
Hindi
2 entries- आजीविका noun (means of supporting oneself)
- जीविका noun (means of supporting oneself)
Hungarian
1 entries- megélhetés noun (means of supporting oneself)
Icelandic
2 entries- lifibrauð noun (means of supporting oneself)
- viðurværi noun (means of supporting oneself)
Indonesian
1 entries- penghidupan noun (means of supporting oneself)
Irish
2 entries- slí bheatha noun (means of supporting oneself)
- slí mhaireachtála noun (means of supporting oneself)
Japanese
1 entries- 生計 noun (means of supporting oneself)
Korean
1 entries- 생계 noun (means of supporting oneself)
Ladino
2 entries- ganansia noun (means of supporting oneself)
- parnasa noun (means of supporting oneself)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഉപജീവനം noun (means of supporting oneself)
- ജീവിതം noun (means of supporting oneself)
Māori
1 entries- oranga whakangakau noun (means of supporting oneself)
Navajo
1 entries- bee iináanii noun (means of supporting oneself)
Northern Sami
1 entries- ealáhus noun (means of supporting oneself)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- levebrød noun (means of supporting oneself)
- livsopphold noun (means of supporting oneself)
- utkomme noun (means of supporting oneself)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- levebrød noun (means of supporting oneself)
- livsopphald noun (means of supporting oneself)
- utkome noun (means of supporting oneself)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Läwensunjahault noun (means of supporting oneself)
Polish
1 entries- utrzymanie noun (means of supporting oneself)
Portuguese
2 entries- ganha-pão noun (means of supporting oneself)
- sustento noun (means of supporting oneself)
Russian
3 entries- жизнь noun (means of supporting oneself)
- пропита́ние noun (means of supporting oneself)
- сре́дства к существова́нию noun (means of supporting oneself)
Spanish
4 entries- medios de subsistencia noun (means of supporting oneself)
- modo de vivir noun (means of supporting oneself)
- modus vivendi noun (means of supporting oneself)
- sustento noun (means of supporting oneself)
Swedish
2 entries- försörjning noun (means of supporting oneself)
- levebröd noun (means of supporting oneself)
Tagalog
1 entries- kabuhayan noun (means of supporting oneself)
Telugu
1 entries- జీవనోపాధి noun (means of supporting oneself)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sinh kế noun (means of supporting oneself)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּרנסה noun (means of supporting oneself)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
The two felt the pressing necessity of earning a livelihood.
Source: tatoeba (271781)
The ordinary people had their livelihood in farming rice.
Source: tatoeba (327697)
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Source: tatoeba (411803)
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