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ˈbread·line N

1. breadline no pl Brit (not enough to live on):

breadline
to be [or live] on the breadline

2. breadline Am (queue):

breadline

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be [or live] on the breadline

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
It's been four years of survival, just keeping above the breadline, sometimes wondering how to make it through the week.
www.stuff.co.nz
It's almost people glossing over the realities of being on the breadline and starving.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Seven-hour breadlines and winter with no heat and electricity have exhausted residents.
www.jpost.com
Indeed, according to some estimates, more than half of older people are living on the breadline.
www.independent.co.uk
Two of his elder brothers worked with his father at the local colliery and the family was no longer on the breadline.
en.wikipedia.org
But both families, like thousands of others, were living on the breadline even before they had additional mouths to feed.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Our wages are breadline and not going up any time soon and the deficit of infrastructure is tomorrows financial problem.
www.interest.co.nz
We all remember in our grade-school days of looking at people in breadlines and starving.
www.thestar.com
But back in 2012 the troubled former child star was living a little close to the breadline.
www.irishexaminer.com
It has inevitably resulted in the greatest modern slavery, the crassest class distinctions driving millions to the breadline.
en.wikipedia.org

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