For the staff of BHS, however, the downfall of the business was about much more than its place on the high street: it was their livelihood.
"Exaggerated characters or heartstring-pullers, they knew how to pose, how to present the face, the posture of neediness, dereliction, despair – it was their livelihood, this ability".
It was a livelihood I understood far better than the mystery-cloaked arms deals I was given vague details about as a child.
Before Ecuador adopted the dollar, Mr. Echo explained, "you had to go to an exchange house to get dollars, and the people there were very good at spotting fakes because it was their livelihood".
For the bullies, it was their livelihood, be they pig-faced Clearasil grunts who cried when they got subbed off in football, or wild-eyed rudegirl fishwives.
Medha Patkar, one of India's best-known opponents of large industrial projects, said, "Land is livelihood, it's not just property".
He added: "Writing is something I do for a living, all right — it's my livelihood.
Suppose the party then refused to move it, and abused me when I told them it was damaging my livelihood.
