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"farming is a hard means of subsistence"nouna means of surviving
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"social security provided only a bare subsistence"nounminimal (or marginal) resources for subsistingtype of:
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nounthe state of existing in reality; having substancetype of:
Definition that contains subsistence
- provide supply means of subsistence; earn a living
- maintenance the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- provider someone who provides the means for subsistence
- sustenance the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- upkeep the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- quartermaster an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops
- malthus an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
- thomas malthus an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
- sustentation the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- malthusian theory Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence