make a living
Verb
Meaning
To earn enough income to support oneself and, if applicable, one's family.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:make a living
(of animals) To manage to find enough food to survive.
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Examples
You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.