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breadwinning

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The earning of a household's primary income.

uncountable

Equivalents

DeutschBroterwerb
2 more languages
한국어밥벌이

Examples

“This could have⟳ occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak⟳—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel⟳, or of bread-winning.”
“And the key issues that both batterers and battered women identify⟳ as triggers to battering are men's successes in breadwinning and the bedroom – the two Bs.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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