livin'
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9.5
- noun
- /ˈlɪvɪn/
- Informal
:
sustento
- Now obviously putting all these hours into the steam links is not worth it if you were doing this for a living because they're not items that are very expensive.
- livin' large
- livin' right
- livin' easy
And what you've got to ask yourself is, is it intrinsically worse to move from bashing metal for a living to say, operating a camp?
- And what you've got to ask yourself is, is it intrinsically worse to move from bashing metal for a living to say, operating a camp?
- We want to learn what our parents do for a living, what the workers on the street are doing that for, etcetera.
- By one glorious mistake, many years ago, when I decided that I'd get up and show off for a living.
- I know this because what I do for a living is read what people say at a scale that would make this collective room head spin.
- By using the narrative form, he gets me Who who's somebody, you know, thinks about things sort of for a living to think about them from a different angle.
- It's almost, I mean that, you know, that is a very rarefied breed that people can make a living and is a full time author.
Examples
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We want to learn what our parents do for a living, what the workers on the street are doing that for, etcetera.
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Like you can't make a living being black, you can't make a living being white.
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It's almost, I mean that, you know, that is a very rarefied breed that people can make a living and is a full time author.
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I know this because what I do for a living is read what people say at a scale that would make this collective room head spin.
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And novelists everywhere who needed to make a living thought, OK, I'll write one of those and and that'll support me for the rest of my life.
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I remember the good old days when my business didn't depend on anybody's bridge; we made our livin' right here.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many artists struggle to find ways to support their passion and make a livin'.
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Despite the challenges, he was determined to make a livin' doing what he loved.
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She found that teaching music allowed her to make a comfortable livin'.
Synonyms
922
2.3
Money someone earns to support themselves
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3.5
A way of earning money to pay for basic needs
Surface Forms
Etymology
Livin' is an informal spelling of living, which comes from the same word as life and originally means your 'way of earning money' or what you do to support yourself. So, making a livin' is simply making the money you need to live.