subsistence (Meaning)

Wordnet

subsistence (n)

minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting

a means of surviving

the state of existing in reality; having substance

The farmer's meager yield provided only subsistence for his family.
The tribe lived a subsistence lifestyle, relying on hunting and gathering for survival.
Despite their poverty, the villagers had achieved a steady subsistence.
The government provides food stamps to ensure subsistence for the needy.
The salary was just enough for subsistence, leaving no room for savings.
The refugees struggled to find subsistence in the overcrowded camp.
The drought forced the farmers to abandon their subsistence crops.
The elderly couple relied on subsistence farming to survive in their old age.
The war left behind a ravaged land, making subsistence impossible.
The workers lived in dilapidated slums, barely scraping by on a subsistence wage.

minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting, a means of surviving, the state of existing in reality; having substance

existence,reality, prevalence, life, corporeality, activity, currency, thingness, animation, actuality

lack, nonbeing, nothingness, unreality, nonbeing, absence,nonexistence, nothingness, absence, unreality

The farmer's meager yield provided only subsistence for his family.

The tribe lived a subsistence lifestyle, relying on hunting and gathering for survival.

Despite their poverty, the villagers had achieved a steady subsistence.

The government provides food stamps to ensure subsistence for the needy.