breadline
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Is breadline a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.Examples: "I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God.""; "Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape."US
2. (British, figurative) The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.Examples: "Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline."; "[…] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up."; "It hurt him to see other good ex-servicemen working their socks off and making no-gooders comfortable while they remained just over the breadline."Britishfiguratively
Definition source: Wiktionary