breadline

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

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa uma fila de pessoas esperando receber comida gratuita, geralmente de uma organização de caridade. Também pode se referir, de forma mais ampla, à linha de pobreza ou à situação de dependência de ajuda alimentar.

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.

   🇵🇹Fila para comida gratuita

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.

   🇵🇹Linha de pobreza

   Sinônimos: poverty levelpoverty line

• breadlines plural form
• breadlines' possessive plural form
• breadline's possessive singular form