"live off" meaning in English

See live off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-au-live off.ogg [Australia] Forms: lives off [present, singular, third-person], living off [participle, present], lived off [participle, past], lived off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live off (third-person singular simple present lives off, present participle living off, simple past and past participle lived off)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-live_off-en-verb-YLH08x9d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 75 25
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Synonyms: live on
    Sense id: en-live_off-en-verb-kSs1qQTI

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for live off meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "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": [
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "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": [],
      "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live off"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live off"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.