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breadline
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bread·line also bread line  (brdln)
n.
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency.
breadline
Noun
on the breadline impoverished; living at subsistence level
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.breadlinebreadline - a queue of people waiting for free food
bread line
queue, waiting line - a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
Translations
breadline [ˈbrɛdlaɪn] n on the breadline → en la miseria
breadline [ˈbrɛdlaɪn] n to be on the breadline → être sans le sou or dans l'indigence
breadline [ˈbrɛdlaɪn] n to be on the breadline → nur das Allernotwendigste zum Leben haben
breadline [ˈbrɛdlaɪn] n to be on the breadline → avere appena denaro per vivere


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Whatever the catastrophe-the injustice, the evil, the breadlines, concentration camps, the unenlightening encyclical-Commonweal was there to face it, to mark the truth and consequences.
DEPRESSING & EXHILARATING by McGrory, Mary / Commonweal
He writes of breadlines, happy summers spent at Bennington, and the "hunger" of dance lovers who drove hundreds of miles to see the Humphrey-Weidman company during its groundbreaking tours of the late 1930s.
Jose Limon by Dance Magazine
In the 1930s, the working class was publicly amassing--whether on breadlines, in marches, or strikes--to an unprecedented degree.
Langston Hughes's Radical Poetry and the "End of Race" by Dawahare, Anthony / MELUS
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