"breadline" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "breadliner"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "below the breadline"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "on the breadline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bread",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "bread + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bread + line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breadlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "breadline (plural breadlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "poverty line"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "soupline"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Food and drink",
          "orig": "en:Food and drink",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poverty",
          "orig": "en:Poverty",
          "parents": [
            "Wealth",
            "Economics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Alex Baskin, The Unemployed (1930-1932), page 4:",
          "text": "I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, \"There but for the grace of God.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines, page 183:",
          "text": "Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity."
      ],
      "id": "en-breadline-en-noun-NjjAudd0",
      "links": [
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "charity",
          "charity"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "line for food from charity",
          "word": "leipäjono"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "line for food from charity",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Brotschlange"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "[…] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Toby Bishop, Cry Havoc, page 4:",
          "text": "It hurt him to see other good ex-servicemen working their socks off and making no-gooders comfortable while they remained just over the breadline.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gail Brooking, Coping With Change:",
          "text": "It changed her. Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Bernard Knight, Lost Prophecies, page 357:",
          "text": "For poor people that takes them near the breadline, but they still do it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Subsistence level."
      ],
      "id": "en-breadline-en-noun-6tO9xFua",
      "links": [
        [
          "Subsistence",
          "subsistence"
        ],
        [
          "level",
          "level"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Subsistence level."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "subsistence level",
          "word": "toimeentuloraja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "subsistence level",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Existenzminimum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "subsistence level",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "granica ubóstwa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "bread line"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breadline"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "en:Food and drink",
    "en:Poverty"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "breadliner"
    },
    {
      "word": "below the breadline"
    },
    {
      "word": "on the breadline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bread",
        "3": "line"
      },
      "expansion": "bread + line",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bread + line.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breadlines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "breadline (plural breadlines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "poverty line"
    },
    {
      "word": "soupline"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1975, Alex Baskin, The Unemployed (1930-1932), page 4:",
          "text": "I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, \"There but for the grace of God.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines, page 183:",
          "text": "Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "line",
          "line"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "charity",
          "charity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "[…] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Toby Bishop, Cry Havoc, page 4:",
          "text": "It hurt him to see other good ex-servicemen working their socks off and making no-gooders comfortable while they remained just over the breadline.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Gail Brooking, Coping With Change:",
          "text": "It changed her. Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Bernard Knight, Lost Prophecies, page 357:",
          "text": "For poor people that takes them near the breadline, but they still do it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Subsistence level."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Subsistence",
          "subsistence"
        ],
        [
          "level",
          "level"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Subsistence level."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bread line"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "line for food from charity",
      "word": "leipäjono"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "line for food from charity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brotschlange"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "subsistence level",
      "word": "toimeentuloraja"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "subsistence level",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Existenzminimum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "subsistence level",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "granica ubóstwa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "breadline"
}