subsistence level
noun
a standard of living barely adequate to support life
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How to use subsistence level in a sentence
His income in the collective was only on the subsistence level.
Area Handbook for Albania | Eugene K. KeefeExports and imports were no longer a tiny margin in an economy just above the subsistence level.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. | S. A. ReillyThe wage earners were well above the subsistence level as long as trade was good.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. | S. A. ReillyIn the first case, a subsistence level is preserved; in the second, new levels of self-constitution are made possible.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinThe peasants represented over 80 percent of the total population, most of whom lived at or below subsistence level.
Area Handbook for Albania | Eugene K. Keefe
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