Crossword clues for livelihood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Livelihood \Live"li*hood\, n. [OE. livelode, liflode, prop., course of life, life's support, maintenance, fr. AS. l[=i]f life + l[=a]d road, way, maintenance. Confused with livelihood liveliness. See Life, and Lode.] Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; the means for support of life; maintenance.
The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood.
--Addison.
It is their profession and livelihood to get their
living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit
their lives.
--South.
Livelihood \Live"li*hood\, n. [Lively + -hood.]
Liveliness; appearance of life. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, alteration of livelode "means of keeping alive" (c.1300), from Old English lifad "course of life," from lif "life" + lad "way, course" (see load). Similar formation in Old High German libleita. Spelling assimilated to words in -hood. Earlier livelihood was a different word, meaning "liveliness," from lively.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour. (10th-17thc.)
WordNet
n. the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" [syn: support, keep, living, bread and butter, sustenance]
Wikipedia
A person's livelihood refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities -food, water, shelter and clothing- of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities, involving securing water, food, fodder, medicine, shelter, clothing and the capacity to acquire above necessities working either individually or as a group by using endowments (both human and material) for meeting the requirements of the self and his/her household on a sustainable basis with dignity. The activities are usually carried out repeatedly. For instance, a fisherman's livelihood depends on the availability and accessibility of fish.
The concept of Sustainable Livelihood (SL) is an attempt to go beyond the conventional definitions and approaches to poverty eradication.
These had been found to be too narrow because they focused only on certain aspects or manifestations of poverty, such as low income, or did not consider other vital aspects of poverty such as vulnerability and social exclusion. It is now recognized that more attention must be paid to the various factors and processes which either constrain or enhance poor people’s ability to make a living in an economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable manner.
The SL concept offers a more coherent and integrated approach to poverty. The sustainable livelihoods idea was first introduced by the Brundtland Commission on Environment and Development, and the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development expanded the concept, advocating for the achievement of sustainable livelihoods as a broad goal for poverty eradication.
In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable which can cope with and recover from stress and shocks, maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets, and provide sustainable livelihood opportunities for the next generation; and which contributes net benefits to other livelihoods at the local and global levels and in the short and long term."
Usage examples of "livelihood".
This method of livelihood has been our profession for generations, and yet when we are in the protection of the powerful Dewan Ajeet says I am a traitor to our salt.
One last good landing before he let the federal government buy his boat, the Santo Fado, out of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, and he took up cabinet making, turning his back of the livelihood that had fed seven generations of Rezendez going back to the days when Innsmouth was the whaling capital of the New World.
If Acerrae surrenders, Capua will goits livelihood is Roman, but its heart is with Italia.
Three years ago I was deprived of my mother and the means of livelihood at one stroke, for my mother had an annuity.
It was thought strange that the prohibition should come from the Orloffs, as gaming had been their principal means of gaining a livelihood before they entered on the more dangerous and certainly not more honourable profession of conspiracy.
The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.
Silvio could have easily made his living as a violinist, though his livelihood was better and far more assured as a member of the luthier guild.
The simple actblithely ordered by King Frederick and signed by some bureaucrat who paid little attention to whatever paper was thrust in front of himhad robbed Rlinda of her dreams, and most of her livelihood.
They could not afford to have uneager dnu when the beasts were their livelihood.
Wilson, whose term of servitude had expired, preferred the mode of living among the natives, to earning his livelihood by the sweat of his brow.
Anasazi must have faced, the daily battle to wring a livelihood from an ungiving land.
Enough to eke out the livelihood she made as herbalist to the village folk in the Dorsetshire countryside.
Our ancestors, during nearly two centuries of poverty which followed the first settlement, turned their hands to the humblest ways of getting a livelihood, became shoemakers, or blacksmiths or tailors, or did the hardest and most menial and rudest work of the farm, shoveled gravel or chopped wood, without any of the effect on their character which would be likely to be felt from the permanent pursuit of such an occupation in England or Germany.
Other strong peoples besides the Mandingo and the Songhay grew strong enough to nourish wider ambitions than their forefathers and to see the chance of larger and perhaps better ways of life and livelihood.
Mecca four months of the year are devoted to the foreign guests of Allah, by attending to whose various needs all Meccans gain their livelihood.