living noun

ADJ. comfortable, decent, good He makes a good living as a builder. | meagre She eked out a meagre living as an artist's model.

VERB + LIVING earn, make Her dream was to earn her living as a singer. | eke out, scrape (together), scratch They were forced to scrape a living by selling things on the streets. | do sth for He asked what I did for a living.