subsistence level


noun
  1. 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. Keefe
  • Exports and imports were no longer a tiny margin in an economy just above the subsistence level.

  • The wage earners were well above the subsistence level as long as trade was good.

  • In the first case, a subsistence level is preserved; in the second, new levels of self-constitution are made possible.

  • The 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