noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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Now this basic means of subsistence for between 50,000 and 100,000 urban migrants has been outlawed.
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Most people have considerable leeway as to how they spend their money over and above basic subsistence requirements.
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As agriculture developed, surplus wealth, that is goods above the basic subsistence needs of the community, was produced.
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If you go back far enough, of course, all our ancestors lived in basic subsistence economies where cash never changed hands.
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What was the cost of basic subsistence in the first part of the eighteenth century?
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Crop husbandry was limited to basic subsistence and animal feed.
■ NOUN
agriculture
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The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
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The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.
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Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture .
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By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
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From this time on the position of subsistence agriculture declined in other regions, though the pace of this change was uneven.
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Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture .
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The world which had been dominated by subsistence agriculture crumbled.
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The siting of a settlement is very closely connected with the decision to use the land around for subsistence agriculture .
allowance
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances , MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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Travelling and subsistence allowances are not subject to tax.
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He would also have received a subsistence allowance from his employers.
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They consist of: £29 a day subsistence allowance to cover meals, taxis and other incidentals.
economy
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The subsistence economy , however, provides security for irregular workers.
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They were prisoners, for the most part, of a subsistence economy .
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In its purest form, the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis.
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The ancient subsistence economy of the villages lasted a long time.
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Hunting and gathering is a subsistence economy which means that production only meets basic survival needs.
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If you go back far enough, of course, all our ancestors lived in basic subsistence economies where cash never changed hands.
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Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running?
farmer
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Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers .
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Physicists do not generally choose their mates from among subsistence farmers .
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The life of a subsistence farmer simple does not accord with our notion of labour.
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Most of us were subsistence farmers .
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Cattle Ranching Hungry subsistence farmers follow in the wake of loggers.
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The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers.
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Genuine land reform is not about breaking up highly productive commercial farms into little plots for subsistence farmers .
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Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers .
level
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Tokugawa agriculture was highly productive, and the amount levied in tax suggests that production was well above subsistence level .
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Thus, he conceded that a scarcity of workers might keep wages above the subsistence level for an indefinite time.
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What are these minimum subsistence levels ?
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The vote against a federal guarantee of a minimal, subsistence level of support was a devastating loss to all women.
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What is the subsistence level for students?
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That is almost £500 below the minimum subsistence level for the poorest people in our society.
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Payments soon fell below subsistence level .
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The majority of the islanders lived at subsistence level .
■ VERB
live
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The villagers were peasants and small-scale farmers who lived a semi-subsistence existence.
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The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technological advances is of little significance to a rural population living at or below subsistence level.
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Most of them eke out a living as subsistence farmers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Factory workers were paid a subsistence wage.
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Settlers to the area threatened the bears' subsistence .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If overtime is not paid subsistence can be claimed at own base.
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In an era of fast food, subsistence incomes don't make for a culinary culture.
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Parties and witnesses are entitled to allowances for loss of earnings, subsistence and travel to and from the tribunal.
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That is almost £500 below the minimum subsistence level for the poorest people in our society.
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The vote against a federal guarantee of a minimal, subsistence level of support was a devastating loss to all women.
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They were prisoners, for the most part, of a subsistence economy.
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To receive their full daily subsistence allowances, MEPs must have taken part in half the roll-call votes.
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When accompanied by minimum subsistence pensions, as in Britain, retirement means economic dependency.