Usually means: Means of securing basic necessities.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. livelihood: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. livelihood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. livelihood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. livelihood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. livelihood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Livelihood, livelihood: Wordnik
  7. livelihood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. livelihood: Wiktionary
  9. livelihood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. livelihood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. livelihood: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Livelihood, livelihood: Dictionary.com
  13. livelihood: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. livelihood: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Livelihood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Livelihood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. livelihood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. livelihood: Rhymezone
  19. livelihood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. livelihood: Free Dictionary
  21. livelihood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. livelihood: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. livelihood: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. livelihood: Encyclopedia

(Note: See livelihoods as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).
noun:  (now rare) Property which brings in an income; an estate.
noun:  (obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
noun:  (obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.

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