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subsistence
[ suhb-sis-tuhns ]
noun
- the state or fact of subsisting.
- the state or fact of existing.
- the providing of sustenance or support.
Synonyms: nourishment, maintenance, survival
- means of supporting life; a living or livelihood.
- the source from which food and other items necessary to exist are obtained.
- Philosophy.
- existence, especially of an independent entity.
- the quality of having timeless or abstract existence.
- mode of existence or that by which a substance is individualized.
subsistence
/ səbˈsɪstəns /
noun
- the means by which one maintains life
- the act or condition of subsisting
- a thing that has real existence
- the state of being inherent
- philosophy an inferior mode of being ascribed to the references of general terms which do not in fact exist See also nonbeing
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Other Words From
- inter·sub·sistence noun
- nonsub·sistence noun
- presub·sistence noun
- self-sub·sistence noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of subsistence1
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Example Sentences
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
Committee on Natural Resources draft bill discussion—“The Alaska Native Subsistence Co-Management Demonstration Act of 2014”
The absence of a minimum wage law results in many workers earning below subsistence levels.
Hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers work hard to obtain every calorie they eat.
Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
It has no connection as yet with the question of the total available means of subsistence.
The citizens, on a short notice of 20 days, were deprived of the means of gaining a subsistence.
According to Moro custom the fruit of a manʼs labour belongs to the Datto who gives the man a subsistence.
Thus he could readily obtain the means of subsistence by aid of the arts and weapons employed by him in the tropical forests.
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