Both Uses of
livelihood
in
Oliver Twist
- This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood.†
Chpt 13 *
- Mr. Noah Claypole: receiving a free pardon from the Crown in consequence of being admitted approver against Fagin: and considering his profession not altogether as safe a one as he could wish: was, for some little time, at a loss for the means of a livelihood, not burdened with too much work.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(livelihood) the money needed to provide the necessesities of life; or the way one earns that money