breadline

breadline

See also: bread-line and bread line

English

Alternative forms

• bread line

Etymology

bread +‎ line

Noun

breadline (plural breadlines)

1. A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
2. Subsistence level.
   • 1993, Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, p 249:

     […] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.

Derived terms

• on the breadline

Translations

line for food from charity

Finnish: leipäjono (fi)

Anagrams

• bandelier, bandileer