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subsistence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sustenance, bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
social security provided only a bare subsistence.
subsistence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | existence, face of the earth, beingness, being |
Examples of subsistence
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The farm also had pigs, chicken and bees, along with subsistence and cash crops.
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They practice subsistence hunting, farming and gathering firewood in the forest.
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Highway billboards promise better days for desperately poor subsistence farmers.
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What he found instead was subsistence on a series of short-term labor contracts.
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Most of the population is engaged in subsistence farming, but barely subsisting.
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Lisu subsistence was based on paddy fields, mountain rice, fruit and vegetables.
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Subsistence rice farming was the principal occupation of most of the population.
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Most of the inhabitants of outlying islands engage in subsistence activity only.
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It is developing cultivars specifically for smallholder and subsistence farmers.
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- Minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
- A means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
- The state of existing in reality; having substance
- Real being; existence; Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies; That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence; A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the ...
- Daily travel expenses covering meals, taxes, tips for meals and incidental expenses.
- The bare necessities of life.
- The use of marine mammals taken by Alaskan Natives for food, clothing, shelter, heating, transportation, and other uses necessary to maintain the life of the taker or those who depend upon the taker to provide them with such subsistence.
- The way by which a culture obtains its food.
- In the context of resource use, this suggests harvesting and use of marine resource(s) strictly for household consumption.
