Livelihood vs Salary - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.
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*:wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful / & he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child / & his name is sir Ector / & he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys
A person's means of supporting himself.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.4:
*:But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay / And former livelod fayle, she left me quight.
*Addison
*:the opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood
*South
*:It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their lives.
*2013 , Matthew Claughton, The Guardian , (letter), 25 April:
*:The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts V:
*:Then sayde Peter: Ananias how is it that satan hath fillen thyne hert, thatt thou shuldest lye unto the holy goost, and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off thy lyvelod ?
(obsolete) Liveliness; appearance of life.
:(Shakespeare)
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
* Shakespeare
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
Livelihood is a related term of salary.
As nouns the difference between livelihood and salary
is that livelihood is (obsolete) the course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour while salary is a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.As a verb salary is
to pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.As an adjective salary is
(obsolete) saline.livelihood
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Alternative forms
* livelod * lyuelode * lyvelodNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* living * subsistencesalary
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(salaries)- This is hire and salary , not revenge.
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- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
