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āĻ āĻāĻŋāĻ§āĻžāĻ¨ā§āĻ° āĻāĻžāĻˇāĻž āĻ¨āĻŋāĻ°ā§āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ¨ āĻāĻ°ā§āĻ¨
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the breadline
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The breadline
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an informal threshold of income that marks the level at which a person or household is regarded as very poor or barely able to afford basic necessities
Idiom
āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻšāĻ°āĻŖ
Economists argued that the official measure underestimated the number of households actually on the breadline.
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02
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a line of people waiting to receive free food or other emergency relief distributed by a charity, agency, or community group
āĻāĻĻāĻžāĻšāĻ°āĻŖ
During the weeks after the factory closed, the breadline at the church grew longer each morning.
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