- live beyond your means
- live beyond your means► to spend more than you earn: »
To avoid slipping into debt, don't live beyond your means.
Main Entry: ↑live
Financial and business terms. 2012.
live beyond your means
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live beyond your means — live beyond/within/your means phrase to have a way of life in which you spend more money than you earn less money than you earn Thesaurus: to spend or to pay moneysynonym Main entry: live … Useful english dictionary
beyond your means — ► if you are living beyond your means, you are spending more money than you earn: »Too many people live beyond their means. Main Entry: ↑means … Financial and business terms
live within your means — live beyond/within/your means phrase to have a way of life in which you spend more money than you earn less money than you earn Thesaurus: to spend or to pay moneysynonym Main entry: live … Useful english dictionary
live — Ⅰ. live UK US /laɪv/ adjective COMMUNICATIONS ► a live event is broadcast or seen at the same time it is performed or happens: »a live webcast/webinar live broadcasts/coverage/discussions » We try out ideas on thousands of customers at once,… … Financial and business terms
within your means — within (your) means without spending more than the money you have. We need to reduce spending and live within our means. Opposite of: beyond (your) means … New idioms dictionary
live — I VERB USES ♦ lives, living, lived (Pronounced [[t]lɪ̱v[/t]] in live 1, and [[t]la͟ɪv[/t]] in live 2.) 1) VERB If someone lives in a particular place or with a particular person, their home is in that place or with that person. [V adv/prep] She… … English dictionary
means — W2S2 [mi:nz] n plural means ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(method)¦ 2¦(money)¦ 3 by all means! 4 by no means/not by any means 5 by means of something 6 a means to an end 7 the means of production ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) … Dictionary of contemporary English
means — noun 1 method of doing sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, convenient, effective, efficient, reliable, useful ▪ an effective means of mass communication ▪ … Collocations dictionary
live — live1 [ lıv ] verb *** ▸ 1 be/stay alive ▸ 2 have home in place ▸ 3 have kind of life ▸ 4 keep alive certain way ▸ 5 continue to exist ▸ 6 have interesting life ▸ 7 be kept in certain place ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive to be or stay alive: She s … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
live — I UK [lɪv] / US verb Word forms live : present tense I/you/we/they live he/she/it lives present participle living past tense lived past participle lived *** 1) [intransitive] to have your home in a particular place Paris is a nice place to live.… … English dictionary
