live on sth betydelse and definition

Betydelse av live on sth på svenska

• 0 If you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need:

  • We lived on very little when we first got married.

• 1 to only eat a particular type of food:

  • I more or less live on pasta.

• 2 if you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need:

  • Nearly 5 million of Morocco's 33 million people live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank.

  • live on a budget/a low income/a fixed income etc. Many retired people living on fixed incomes need to estimate what the purchasing power of money will be over long periods in the future.