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daily bread

noun [U]
 
 
informal

Definition

the money you need to pay for necessary things, such as foodCosts and expensesGeneral words for amounts of moneyLarge amounts of moneySmall amounts of money
(Definition of daily bread noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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