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Перевод: livelihood

[существительное]
средства к жизни; средства к существованию

Тезаурус:

1. whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake,
2. Once here, the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood.
3. Well, I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct, and I nominate as the first recipient, Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth, Employed by the New Forest District Council, Keith Holdsworth risked his career, his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity, when it would have been so easy to take an easier route.
4. LAURENCE SMITH, the former London and Saracens centre, whose livelihood as a fireman has been affected by a serious leg injury sustained while playing rugby a year ago, has an international benefit match at Southgate on Monday afternoon.
5. Fishing was the source of Lowestoft's livelihood from medieval times, and one or two of its old herring-curing houses survive, usually two- or three-storey buildings with shuttered upper floors and roof vents.
6. Appearing as witnesses in court, some physicians have suggested that it is foolhardy to jeopardise a person's livelihood because of a laboratory report when the worker appears to be performing his job normally.
7. If the demand for pedigree dogs and the size of the dog population in general falls as a result, this is the price that all whose livelihood depends on pet dogs will have to pay.
8. But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality: For them it was a means to a livelihood, as pimping is for others" (p. 180).
9. Even so, the committee is unlikely to match the surprises of the "alternative" Nobel prizes, awarded yesterday by the Right Livelihood Society, which singles out ecologically-sound solutions to problems.
10. In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate, and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens, even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast - but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood.
11. People do work without the institutional system of capitalism and they are assured of a reasonable livelihood.
12. These students would then, no doubt, be accused of depriving immigrants of their sole source of livelihood.
13. Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations.