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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sustaining income |
| Synonyms: | bread, daily bread, keep, livelihood, living, means, meat, staff of life, support, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
| Synonyms: | alimentation, bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt, subsistence, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, way, work |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter, bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
| Synonyms: | aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | extras |
| Main Entry: | staff of life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food for life |
| Synonyms: | bread, bread and butter, daily bread, meat, necessary food, pain, pane, staple, staple food |
| Main Entry: | alimentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nourishment |
| Synonyms: | bread, bread and butter, food, livelihood, maintenance, nutriment, nutrition, subsistence, support, sustenance |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
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