subsistence
生存,生计,维持生计,生活费
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Definitions
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- : the state or fact of subsisting.
- : the state or fact of existing.
- : the providing of sustenance or support.
- : means of supporting life; a living or livelihood.
- : the source from which food and other items necessary to exist are obtained.
- : Philosophy. existence, especially of an independent entity.the quality of having timeless or abstract existence.mode of existence or that by which a substance is individualized.
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Examples
Last year, she received a Fulbright US Scholar Award to return to subsistence fishing villages outside the Brazilian city of Recife where she had organized a US-Brazil student project in the summer of 1965.
They were just subsistence farmers and they wanted to be left alone.
It is natural that rural Guatemalans or subsistence farmers in Kenya, facing drought or scorching heat, would seek out someplace more stable and resilient.
Income allows us in one period of time be able to pay our bills, be able to have subsistence in our life.
For farmers who are mainly focused on subsistence farming, the upside includes optimizing underutilized vast pieces of land, earning extra income and getting access to market through Komaza’s wood processing and sales operations.
These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
Committee on Natural Resources draft bill discussion—“The Alaska Native Subsistence Co-Management Demonstration Act of 2014”
The absence of a minimum wage law results in many workers earning below subsistence levels.
Hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers work hard to obtain every calorie they eat.
Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring from the reluctant earth.