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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

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  1. livelihood: Encyclopedia

(Note: See livelihoods as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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