Subsistence - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |səbˈsɪstəns|  American pronunciation of the word subsistence
Brit.  |səbˈsɪst(ə)ns|  British pronunciation of the word subsistence

noun

- 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

Extra 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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