Livelihood vs Welfare - What's the difference?
livelihood | welfare |
(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.
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(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
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, title= (uncountable, chiefly, US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance ).
As nouns the difference between livelihood and welfare
is that livelihood is the course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour while welfare is health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.livelihood
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Alternative forms
* livelod * lyuelode * lyvelodNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* living * subsistencewelfare
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Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare . Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}