English-Spanish translations for livelihood

• sustento
  Su sustento estaba en peligro. Their livelihoods were endangered.
  Muchas familias dependen de esas pesquerías para su sustento. Many families depend on these fisheries for their livelihoods.
  El bacalao es un pescado que proporciona sustento a muchas familias. Cod is a fish that provides many families with their livelihood.

Definition of livelihood

• A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself .
• Property which brings in an income; an estate.
• Liveliness; appearance of life
• The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.

Examples

• an independent livelihood; to make / earn / gain a good livelihood

Related words

• lively
• liveliness
• livelong
• livelily
• livelock
• lively plucky