breadlines
breadlines is the plural of breadline.
Meaning of breadline
Noun
breadline (plural breadlines)
- A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
- 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."1975, Alex Baskin, The Unemployed (1930-1932), page 4
- The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
- Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.
Words that rhyme with breadlines
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- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about breadlines
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