- [countable, usually singular] money to buy the things that you need in life
- She earns her living as a freelance journalist.
- to make a decent/good/meagre living
- for a living What do you do for a living?
- She had to drop out of college to work for a living.
- to scrape a living from part-time tutoring
- His father struggled to make a living by farming.
- It is possible to make a living out of writing.
Extra Examples- He makes a good living as a builder.
- She eked out a meagre living as an artist's model.
- Ten acres provides a decent living for a rural family.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- comfortable
- decent
- good
- …
- earn
- make
- eke out
- …
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- [uncountable] a way or style of life
- the pressures of daily living
- The aim was to educate children and parents on tooth care and healthy living.
- Most care homes are based on communal living, with residents spending the daytime in a shared space.
- Josh favours fitness and clean living.
- He has got used to the Western way of living.
- poor living conditions/standards
- We need to reconsider our daily living arrangements.
- The classes are about helping children make informed choices about healthy living.
- everyday living
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- comfortable
- decent
- good
- …
- earn
- make
- eke out
- …
- the living[plural] people who are alive now
- the living and the dead
- [countable] (British English) (especially in the past) a position in the Church as a priest and the income and house that go with this synonym benefice
Idioms
See living in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee living in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin the land of the living
- (often humorous) alive; not sleeping; no longer ill
- I’m glad to see you’re back in the land of the living. We were worried about you.
- By lunchtime I’d returned to the land of the living.
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