Subsistence, Subsist
subsistence (noun) - having just enough food and money to survive
subsist (verb) - just able to obtain enough food to survive
subsistence income
subsistence wages
subsistence allowances
means of subsistence
the level of subsistence
bare subsistence
bare subsistence pensions
a frugal subsistence
lives at subsistence level
struggle at the subsistence level
below minimum subsistence level
living below the level of subsistence
lives at barely above the level of subsistence
dependent for their subsistence on
existed below the subsistence line
with no means of subsistence
cost is prohibitive on a subsistence income
subsistence agriculture
subsistence farmers
subsistence farming
squeeze the subsistence cultivator off the land
farming beyond the subsistence level
catches fish for their own subsistence
move from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops
make a living from subsistence agriculture
Example sentences:
* A large fraction of the poor, an invisible third of the nation, existed below the subsistence line in urban ghettos and pockets of rural misery.
* As the peasant moves from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops, he loses the security that a subsistence plot provides, that is a basic food supply. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Mass retirement and bare subsistence pensions has resulted in widespread discrimination against older people.
* The majority of women remained in the village as subsistence farmers, relying on remittances from their husbands working in the city to supplement their meagre income from farming.
* Most young refugees found themselves trapped in a life of undemanding and tedious work at subsistence wages.
* The proportion of villagers able to make a living from subsistence agriculture has declined substantially over the last few decades.
* He is able to use capital productively because he can buy the workers' labour power and the price he pays is the subsistence wage. (Source: British National Corpus)
* All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form, with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating. (Source: British National Corpus)
* The cost of laundromats is prohibitive on a subsistence income so the washing gets done in the sink. (Source: British National Corpus)
* The development of farming beyond the subsistence level was most marked in areas of urbanization. (Source: British National Corpus)
* "The authorities freed the basic necessities of island life -- electricity and freight, mainly -- from the price controls that made them affordable to an island people who have for years lived no more that a frugal subsistence."
* Most everyone in the village catches fish in the small streams for their own subsistence.
* "A bank, a variety store, supermarket, gas station, car repair, traffic, side streets, were all indicators of economic activity beyond bare subsistence."
* Everyone in this village lives at subsistence level.
* Everyone in this village lives at barely above the level of subsistence.
* With no means of subsistence, the family of migrant workers was dependent on seasonal labour needs.
* A huge fraction of the country's population lives below the subsistence level of a dollar a day of income.
* The poor folk produce laquerware boxes that helps their scanty subsistence.
* In families living below the level of subsistence, parents often go without so the parents can eat.
* A poor middle aged peasant couple were dependent for their subsistence on the wages of their only son who worked in a coal mine. (Source: British National Corpus)
* The pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance.
* After a means test, a pension was paid well below subsistence which would supplement income from other sources.
* It is Government's aim to create a class of full time professional farmers with sufficient land to provide a reasonable standard of living and, as a corollary, gradually to squeeze the subsistence cultivator off the land into full time alternative employment. (Source: British National Corpus)
* Local government continued to struggle at the subsistence level, incapable of resolving the problem of financial self-sufficiency.
