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bread

noun
  1. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang: chow, eats, grub. See ingestion
  2. That which sustains the mind or spirit: aliment, food, nourishment, nutriment, pabulum, pap, sustenance. See care for, ingestion
  3. The means needed to support life: alimentation, alimony, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, subsistence, support, sustenance, upkeep. See money
  4. Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange: cash, currency, lucre, money. Informal: wampum. Slang: cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, mazuma, moola, scratch. Chiefly British: brass. See money

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