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breadlines

n. (plural of breadline English)

Usage examples of "breadlines".

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?