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Noun(1) (2) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting(3) a means of surviving(4) the state of existing in reality(5) having substance(6) provisions for survival

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(1) Costs of living differ radically, and where subsistence production accounts for a large part of the food supply, GNP grossly underestimates wealth.(2) For those who embarked on a literary career, the only recourse was to draw their subsistence from the value of their writing when they signed their contract with a bookseller.(3) Although most own very small fields, rights even in these can provide supplementary subsistence .(4) These comprise the means of subsistence , habitation, clothing and defense.(5) subsistence agriculture(6) No one complained of being late for work: most of the residents were unemployed and had lived here for years without visible means of subsistence .(7) Thanks to local people's generosity, they have already been able to provide a temporary room and subsistence for eight individuals.(8) It then seemed to the classicists that the real wages, or means of subsistence , had to be advanced to the laborers.(9) This implies among other things that the wage rate is equal to the subsistence basket evaluated in production prices.(10) the minimum income needed for subsistence(11) subsistence wage(12) Their account of the shipwreck in Bermuda does not explain how the leader of the expedition managed to restore control when the island offered land for the taking and ready means of subsistence .(13) Their right to remain here depends upon the subsistence of the visa.(14) The average citizen, however, is fortunate if they provide him with subsistence .(15) the agricultural working class were deprived of a subsistence(16) The Navy's land seizure knocked out most of the island's agriculture and effectively blocked the development of tourism, leaving commercial fishing as the primary means of subsistence .