breadline

A noun referring to a queue of people waiting to receive free food, typically from a charitable organization.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant une file de personnes attendant de recevoir de la nourriture gratuite, généralement distribuée par une organisation caritative, ou le seuil de pauvreté auquel on dépend d'une telle aide.

1. Queue for free food B2 formal

   A line of people waiting to receive free food, often from a charity or soup kitchen.

   • During the Great Depression, many families stood in the breadline.
   • The charity set up a breadline for the homeless.
   • He remembered his grandfather's stories about the breadline.

   🇫🇷File d'attente pour recevoir de la nourriture gratuite

2. Poverty threshold B2 formal

   A metaphorical line representing the level of income needed to afford basic necessities, especially food.

   • Many families live below the breadline in this city.
   • The government's new policy aims to lift people above the breadline.
   • Rising costs are pushing more people towards the breadline.

   🇫🇷seuil de pauvreté

   Synonymes: poverty levelpoverty line

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• breadline's possessive singular form