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Breadwinner

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Breadwinner"

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Word	Definition
parentnoun	(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
familynoun	A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
maintainernoun	Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
supporternoun	A person who gives support to someone or something.
sponsornoun	A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
purveyornoun	One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner.
livelihoodnoun	A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).
suppliernoun	One who supplies; a provider.
providernoun	One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
earnernoun	One who earns money.
vendornoun	A person or a company that vends or sells.
mainstaynoun	A chief support.
supportnoun	(sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
sustenancenoun	Something that provides support or nourishment.
sustainmentnoun	The act of sustaining something.
headnoun	(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
pushernoun	(colloquial) A drug dealer.
outfitternoun	A person or shop that sells specialized clothes and equipment.
anchornoun	(nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
backbonenoun	(countable) The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.