"breadline" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: breadlines [plural]
Etymology: bread + line Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bread|line}} bread + line Head templates: {{en-noun}} breadline (plural breadlines)
  1. A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity. Translations (line for food from charity): leipäjono (Finnish), Brotschlange [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-breadline-en-noun-NjjAudd0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'line for food from charity': 98 2
  2. (figurative) Subsistence level. Tags: figuratively Translations (subsistence level): toimeentuloraja (Finnish), Existenzminimum [neuter] (German), granica ubóstwa [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-breadline-en-noun-6tO9xFua Disambiguation of 'subsistence level': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bread line Derived forms: breadliner, below the breadline, on the breadline Related terms: poverty line, soupline

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