living
Usage
What are other ways to say living?
Living and livelihood (a somewhat more formal word), both refer to what one earns to keep (oneself) alive, but are seldom interchangeable within the same phrase: to earn one's living; to threaten one's livelihood. “To make a living” suggests making just enough to keep alive, and is particularly frequent in the negative: You cannot make a living out of that. “To make a livelihood out of something” suggests rather making a business of it: to make a livelihood out of knitting hats. Maintenance refers usually to what is spent for the living of another: to provide for the maintenance of someone. Maintenance occasionally refers to the allowance itself provided for livelihood: They are entitled to a maintenance from this estate.
Example Sentences
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But experts on power generation and transmission told MarketWatch there are no easy solutions that address Big Tech’s thirst for power and the tensions it creates with consumers’ concern about the cost of living.
From MarketWatch
The plot and the stirring theme song remind me why I’ve always loved living and working in New York, and how the energy of the big city is my engine.
"We can hunt, we can fish, we can live off nature. We are used to living under extreme conditions," she said.
From Barron's
But the state’s ballooning cost of living is starting to ice out the middle class.
That is enough, they say, for them to earn a living and risk taking cases on a contingency fee basis — meaning, if they lose, they don’t get paid.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
