Subsistence - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|səbˈsɪstəns|
Brit.
|səbˈsɪst(ə)ns|
noun
- minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
social security provided only a bare subsistence
- a means of survivingfarming is a hard means of subsistence
- the state of existing in reality; having substanceExtra examples
They depended on hunting and fishing for subsistence.
Farming is their means of subsistence.
Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
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