Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or state of subsisting.
- noun A means of subsisting, especially means barely sufficient to maintain life.
- noun Something that has real or substantial existence.
- noun Christianity Hypostasis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Real being; actual existence.
- noun Continuance; continued existence.
- noun That which exists or has real being.
- noun The act or process of furnishing support to animal life, or that which is furnished; means of support; support; livelihood.
- noun The state of being subsistent; inherence in something else: as. the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
- noun Synonyms Sustenance, etc. See
living .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Real being; existence.
- noun Inherency.
- noun That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood.
- noun (Theol.) Same as
Hypostasis , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Real
being ;existence . - noun
Inherency ; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies. - noun That which
furnishes support to animal life; means of support;provisions , or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. - noun theology A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity;
hypostasis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
- noun the state of existing in reality; having substance
- noun a means of surviving
Etymologies
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Examples
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Page 107: (comparing different levels of subsistence in England and Scotland) This difference, however, in the mode of their subsistence is not the cause, but the effect, of the diference in their wages; though, by a strange misapprehension, I have frequently heard it represented as the cause.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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Peter Reinecke suggests giving the Nunavummiut a few bucks to maintain subsistence hunting, but any talk of infrastructure development is "ludicrous," based upon a wrongful sense of entitlement.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Child labor is employed in subsistence agriculture, in the household, or in the urban informal sector.
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Page 107: (comparing different levels of subsistence in England and Scotland) This difference, however, in the mode of their subsistence is not the cause, but the effect, of the diference in their wages; though, by a strange misapprehension, I have frequently heard it represented as the cause.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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You are right; there is a difference in subsistence hunting and poaching.
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Immediately upon this rise in subsistence began the rise of population; and it is only the other day that Japan, finding her population once again pressing against subsistence, embarked, sword in hand, on a westward drift in search of more room.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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“This may suggest a climatic change and or a shift in subsistence strategies.”
Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab 2010
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At this rate of increase, provided that subsistence is not overtaken, a century from now the population of
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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You are right; there is a difference in subsistence hunting and poaching.
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Furthermore, it bore coincidental resonance with the nineteenth-century Euro-American pejorative digger, which referred to the supposed cultural inferiority of California's Native Americans, some of whom derived subsistence from the gathering of wild roots.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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