"live off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "living off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "live off (third-person singular simple present lives off, present participle living off, simple past and past participle lived off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To depend on financially."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_off-en-verb-YLH08x9d",
      "links": [
        [
          "depend",
          "depend"
        ],
        [
          "financially",
          "financially"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, “World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points, performed by Anne Clark:",
          "text": "I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_off-en-verb-kSs1qQTI",
      "links": [
        [
          "survive",
          "survive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "live on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-live off.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-live_off.ogg/En-au-live_off.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-live_off.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live off"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "living off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "live off (third-person singular simple present lives off, present participle living off, simple past and past participle lived off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depend on financially."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "depend",
          "depend"
        ],
        [
          "financially",
          "financially"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, “World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points, performed by Anne Clark:",
          "text": "I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "survive",
          "survive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "live on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-live off.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/En-au-live_off.ogg/En-au-live_off.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/En-au-live_off.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live off"
}