Breadline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbɹɛdlaɪn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Breadline is a noun meaning (US) A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
Meaning
(US) A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
More Meanings
- (British, figurative) The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
Example Sentences
Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.
For poor people that takes them near the breadline, but they still do it.
[…] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.
It changed her. Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?
Word Forms
- breadlines
- bread line
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pittance, destitution, squalor, misery, lineup, slaughterline.
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