▸ live on or live off
1 PHRASAL VERB If you live on or live off a particular amount of money, you have that amount of money to buy things. □ [V P amount] Even with efficient budgeting, most students are unable to live on £4000 per year. □ [V P amount] You'll have enough to live on.
2 PHRASAL VERB If you live on or live off a particular source of income, that is where you get the money that you need. □ [V P n] The proportion of Americans living on welfare rose. □ [V P n] He's been living off state benefits.
3 PHRASAL VERB If an animal lives on or lives off a particular food, this is the kind of food that it eats. □ [V P n] The fish live on the plankton. □ [V P n] Most species live off aquatic snails.
4 PHRASAL VERB If you say that a person lives on or lives off a particular kind of food, you mean that it seems to be the only thing that they eat, for example because they like it a lot or because they do not have other foods. □ [V P n] The children live on chips. □ [V P n] Their room was bare of furniture and they lived off porridge.
▸ live on PHRASAL VERB If someone lives on , they continue to be alive for a long time after a particular point in time or after a particular event. □ [V P ] I know my life has been cut short by this terrible virus but Daniel will live on after me.
▸ live out
1 PHRASAL VERB If you live out your life in a particular place or in particular circumstances, you stay in that place or in those circumstances until the end of your life or until the end of a particular period of your life. □ [V P n] Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum. □ [V n P ] I couldn't live my life out on tour like he does.
2 PHRASAL VERB If you live out a dream or idea, you do the things that you have thought about. □ [V P n] He began living out his rock 'n' roll fantasy during his last year in law school. □ [V n P ] I suppose some people create an idea of who they want to be, and then they live it out.
▸ live through PHRASAL VERB If you live through an unpleasant event or change, you experience it and survive. □ [V P n] We are too young to have lived through the war.
▸ live together PHRASAL VERB If two people are not married but live in the same house and have a sexual relationship, you can say that they live together . □ [V P ] The couple had been living together for 16 years.
▸ live up to PHRASAL VERB If someone or something lives up to what they were expected to be, they are as good as they were expected to be. □ [V P P n] Sales have not lived up to expectations this year.
➋ live ◆◇◇ /la I v/
1 ADJ [ADJ n] Live animals or plants are alive, rather than being dead or artificial. □ …a protest against the company's tests on live animals. □ …baskets of live chickens.
2 ADJ A live television or radio programme is one in which an event or performance is broadcast at exactly the same time as it happens, rather than being recorded first. □ Murray was a guest on a live radio show. □ …we were laughing and gossiping, oblivious to the fact that we were on live TV. □ A broadcast of the speech was heard in San Francisco, but it is not known if this was live. ● ADV [ADV after v] Live is also an adverb. □ It was broadcast live in 50 countries. □ We'll be going live to Nottingham later in this bulletin.
3 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A live performance is given in front of an audience, rather than being recorded and then broadcast or shown in a film. □ The Rainbow has not hosted live music since the end of 1981. □ A live audience will pose the questions. □ The band was forced to cancel a string of live dates. ● ADV [ADV after v] Live is also an adverb. □ [+ with ] She has been playing live with her new band.
4 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A live recording is a recording of a band playing at a concert, rather than in a studio. □ This is my favourite live album of all time.
5 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A live wire or piece of electrical equipment is directly connected to a source of electricity. □ The plug broke, exposing live wires. □ He warned others about the live electric cables as they climbed to safety.
6 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Live bullets are made of metal, rather than rubber or plastic, and are intended to kill people rather than injure them. □ They trained in the jungle using live ammunition.
7 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A live bomb or missile is one which has not yet exploded. □ A live bomb had earlier been defused. SYNONYMS live VERB ➊1
dwelclass="underline" They are concerned for the fate of the forest and the Indians who dwell in it.
lodge: …the story of the farming family she lodged with as a young teacher.
inhabit: …the people who inhabit these islands.
reside: Margaret resides with her mother in a London suburb.
live|blog /la I vblɒg/ (liveblogs , liveblogging , liveblogged )
1 N‑COUNT A liveblog is a blog in which you write about an event as it happens. □ She provided a liveblog from the conflict area.
2 VERB If you liveblog or liveblog an event, you write on your blog about an event as it happens. □ [V ] Several people were liveblogging from the scene. [also V n]
live-in ◆◇◇ /l I v I n/
1 ADJ [ADJ n] A live-in partner is someone who lives in the same house as the person they are having a sexual relationship with, but is not married to them. □ She shared the apartment with her live-in partner.
2 ADJ [ADJ n] A live-in servant or other domestic worker sleeps and eats in the house where they work. □ I have a live-in nanny for my youngest daughter.