livelihood
Other forms: livelihoods
Your livelihood is the job you work at to earn the income that supports you.
The word livelihood started out as the Old English līflād, or "course of life," and around the 13th century changed to livelode, which meant "a means of keeping one alive." As "-lode" morphed into "-hood," which meant "state, condition," the meaning of the word also changed to mean support for a person's life. That naturally came to mean your job, which provides the monetary support to keep you going.
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the financial means whereby one lives“he could no longer earn his own livelihood”synonyms: bread and butter, keep, living, support, sustenancetypes:maintenancemeans of maintenance of a family or groupmeal ticketa source of income or livelihoodsubsistenceminimal (or marginal) resources for subsistingtype of:resourceavailable source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
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