subsistence level
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Although cities on the coast often maintained commercial or networking ties with each other, society in western Europe was overwhelmingly rural, and production was largely at the subsistence level.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Some focus on the plight of those living at subsistence level; others defend the need to maximize job growth and retention.
From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2019
As the characters' trajectory continues, so does another, from life at subsistence level to life at warp speed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2018
Conceição Moreira Duarte gets by on subsistence level with her son and husband in the nearby woodland, surviving on government benefits and her husband’s sporadic salary as a day laborer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2016
“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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