transcription, транскрипция: [ səbsɪstəns ]
1.
Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive.
...below the subsistence level...
The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence.
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2.
In subsistence farming or subsistence agriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell.
Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands.
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