decent livelihood

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandlivelihood

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/
us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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livelihood
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlaɪv.li.hʊd/
us
/ˈlaɪv.li.hʊd/
(the way someone earns) the money people need to pay for food, a place to live, ...
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(Definition ofdecentandlivelihoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This makes it increasingly difficult for them to obtain customers and so earn adecentlivelihood.
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The aim should be to do all that we can to ensure adecentlivelihood, and future, for everyone in our coastal communities.
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Point has been given to it by contrasting their experiences and the difficulties in the way of adecentlivelihoodfor those at home.
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We have told them we believe the nation is rich enough to afford adecentlivelihoodto every useful worker.
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I hope for a long-term policy which will enable those who cultivate the land to earn adecentlivelihood.
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We know that this country, above any other country in the world, can afford to give the workers adecentlivelihood.
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I think we can, that is if you will give the men who were cultivating the land a fair opportunity of getting adecentlivelihood.
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We must create a living countryside in which people want to live, where they can earn adecentlivelihoodand take part in decent recreation.
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That includes rights to education and adecentlivelihood.
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You must give them a chance of making adecentlivelihood.
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They earn adecentlivelihood, with a prospect of being able to marry and settle down in course of time.
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Do we, or do we not, believe that private enterprise is the best hope of adecentlivelihoodfor the workpeople?
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Does he accept that, if holdings are small, new incomers to farming may find it difficult to make adecentlivelihood?
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They have human rights to development, to education and to adecentlivelihood.
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People must have the opportunity to earn adecentlivelihoodand enjoy basic social security, regardless of which country they live in.
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Can we wonder that the young and vigorous go where they can earn adecentlivelihood?
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They are no more high-flown than the ordinary working man; all they want is adecentlivelihood, which has been denied them up to now.
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He deserves adecentlivelihoodin time of peace.
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I want to see experiments carried out on the mixing of crofting and allied light industry to see if it will yield adecentlivelihood.
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