breadline

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
2. noun The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.

   Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.

Similar words

bread line pittance destitution squalor misery chow line lineup slaughterline queue battle line

Often followed by

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Word family

breadlines