SUBSISTENCE


Meaning of SUBSISTENCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

basic

Now this basic means of subsistence for between 50,000 and 100,000 urban migrants has been outlawed.

Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements.

As agriculture developed, surplus wealth, that is goods above the basic subsistence needs of the community, was produced.

If you go back far enough, of course, all our ancestors lived in basic subsistence economies where cash never changed hands.

What was the cost of basic subsistence in the first part of the eighteenth century?

Crop husbandry was limited to basic subsistence and animal feed.

■ NOUN

agriculture

The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.

The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.

Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture .

By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.

From this time on the position of subsistence agriculture declined in other regions, though the pace of this change was uneven.

Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture .

The world which had been dominated by subsistence agriculture crumbled.

The siting of a settlement is very closely connected with the decision to use the land around for subsistence agriculture .

allowance

To receive their full daily subsistence allowances , MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.

Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.

He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.

They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.

economy

The subsistence economy , however, provides security for irregular workers.

They were prisoners, for the most part, of a subsistence economy .

In its purest form, the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis.

The ancient subsistence economy of the villages lasted a long time.

Hunting and gathering is a subsistence economy which means that production only meets basic survival needs.

If you go back far enough, of course, all our ancestors lived in basic subsistence economies where cash never changed hands.

Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running?

farmer

Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers .

Physicists do not generally choose their mates from among subsistence farmers .

The life of a subsistence farmer simple does not accord with our notion of labour.

Most of us were subsistence farmers .

Cattle Ranching Hungry subsistence farmers follow in the wake of loggers.

The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers.

Genuine land reform is not about breaking up highly productive commercial farms into little plots for subsistence farmers .

Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers .

level

Tokugawa agriculture was highly productive, and the amount levied in tax suggests that production was well above subsistence level .

Thus, he conceded that a scarcity of workers might keep wages above the subsistence level for an indefinite time.

What are these minimum subsistence levels ?

The vote against a federal guarantee of a minimal, subsistence level of support was a devastating loss to all women.

What is the subsistence level for students?

That is almost £500 below the minimum subsistence level for the poorest people in our society.

Payments soon fell below subsistence level .

The majority of the islanders lived at subsistence level .

■ VERB

live

The villagers were peasants and small-scale farmers who lived a semi-subsistence existence.

The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.

Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Factory workers were paid a subsistence wage.

Settlers to the area threatened the bears' subsistence .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

If overtime is not paid subsistence can be claimed at own base.

In an era of fast food, subsistence incomes don't make for a culinary culture.

Parties and witnesses are entitled to allowances for loss of earnings, subsistence and travel to and from the tribunal.

That is almost £500 below the minimum subsistence level for the poorest people in our society.

The vote against a federal guarantee of a minimal, subsistence level of support was a devastating loss to all women.

They were prisoners, for the most part, of a subsistence economy.

To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.

When accompanied by minimum subsistence pensions, as in Britain, retirement means economic dependency.

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