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Meaning of breadwinning | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The earning of a household's primary income.

uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Broterwerb
Ελληνικά αποχειροβίωτος
한국어 밥벌이

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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