Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
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It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Hunanese is a living language.
These living conditions are deplorable.
This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
What do you do for a living?
plain living
The patron of the living who had the right to nominate a particular priest might make the choice, but the living was actually granted by the local bishop.
It’s not much fun, but it’s a living.
At a funeral, it’s also important to think of the living who are left behind.
After the accident, we did what we could for the living.