(US) A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God."
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(British, figurative) The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape.
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