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breadline
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Word definitions for breadline in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
breadline \bread"line`\ n. a queue of people waiting for free food. Syn: bread line.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ On most days, the breadline begins to form by seven o'clock in the morning. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After all, the family is hardly on the breadline . ▪ And resorts, tour operators and shops can not afford to advertise ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a queue of people waiting for free food [syn: bread line ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. 2 subsistence level. n. 1 A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. 2 subsistence level.
Usage examples of breadline.
I made her circulation manager, put her in charge of handing out the paper at factory gates and along breadlines and so on.
They were sacked en masse at the beginning of the long vacation and hired in the autumn, after a summer of breadlines and doss houses.
They'd had food coupons, breadlines, fuel shortages, and inflation higher than the World Trade Center.
You don't think those benefits that Trish gives are breadlines do you?
English novelist, a French film director who wore clothes so elegantly it made everyone else feel like breadline standbys, a plasma physicist from Princeton who's up for the Nobel this year because of his major breakthrough in magnetic containment fusion.
It seemed brutal to be wading into the bill of fare with poor old Bicky headed for the breadline.
Marilee wrote long descriptions of breadlines for all the people who had been put out of work by the Depression, and of men in nice suits who obviously used to have money, but who were now selling apples on street corners, and of a legless man on a sort of skateboard, who was a World War One veteran or was pretending to be one, selling pencils in Grand Central Station, and of high-society people thrilled to be hobnobbing with gangsters in speakeasies -- that sort of thing.
I drew him aside and whispered how I'd had some sport with the Bugleboy, who didn't know an imaginary reference line from a breadline.