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SUBSISTENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
Example:
social security provided only a bare subsistence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("subsistence" is a kind of...):
bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of existing in reality; having substance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("subsistence" is a kind of...):
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A means of surviving
Example:
farming is a hard means of subsistence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("subsistence" is a kind of...):
endurance; survival (a state of surviving; remaining alive)
Derivation:
subsist (support oneself)
