Subsistence

What do we mean by subsistence?

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

Hypostasis. 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. 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

Same as Hypostasis, 2. 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

A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis. noun

Minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting noun

The state of existing in reality; having substance noun

Real being; existence.

The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.

Inherency.

Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.

Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

1. Surviving on the bare minimum of what you need to live. 2. An active RuneScape clan with well over a hundred members and 35+ level 100's. Urban Dictionary

1. condition of managing to stay alive: the condition of being or managing to stay alive, especially when there is barely enough food or money for survival 2. continuing to exist: the condition of continuing to exist 3. mathematics philosophy quality of abstract existence: the quality that something possesses of existing independently, timelessly, or by virtue of its essence Urban Dictionary

1)To eat a relatviely narrow range of food choices at weird hours and with weird people. All the good foods are not eaten, and instead are replaced with crap foods. 2) To practice a dietary regimen that leaves one short and surly, with a ghetto booty parted in the middle by a range of thong underwear Urban Dictionary

When someone farts just enough for only the farter to smell it, and no one else. Similar to subsistence farming, but related to passing gas and not raising crops. Urban Dictionary

Agriculture that provides food to the farmer and his/her family, with little or no product for trade. The practitioners are very susceptible to famine. Urban Dictionary

Any business with a lax business model, allowing only for the owner(s) to maintain a middle-class or lower lifestyle. Sometimes dishonest practices including but not limited to: tax evasion, insurance fraud, and forced child labor; are utilized to keep the business profitable. Urban Dictionary

Obviously the term for sleeping with someone you don't want a long term relationship with, but find necessary to keep yourself in hormonal harmony Urban Dictionary

To dump, or urine in your pants. Urban Dictionary

A subset of employment which describes poverty level low-income jobs. Workers in this type of employment find themselves living paycheck to paycheck with no means of financial growth. Most often associated with entry level work for fast-food, big-box retail, and agrarian employers. Usage: "I'm heading to cash my Subsistance Employment paycheck to buy this weeks top-ramen and bus tokens." Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to subsistence:
subsistence, subsistency, subsidence, absistence, subsistent, subsistences.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word subsistence:
manioc, farming, sorghum, millet, cassava, commissary, husbandry, maize, agriculture, herding, caribou, crops, hunting, beans, livelihood, harvesting, allowance, cultivation, bananas, fishing, livestock, sugarcane, whaling, trapping, cocoa, crop, wages, fisheries, foraging, surplus, potatoes, corn, gdp, cattle, farms, hunted, goats, wage, economy, hunters, raising, lifestyle, staple, salmon, cash, vegetables, logging, gathering, plots, peasants, export, pigs, strategies, shifting, agricultural, practiced, wheat, rice, irrigation, coffee, fruits, patterns, sheep, cotton, consumption, alaska, grown, dairy, food, foods, farmer, peoples, indigenous, transformation, sector, grain, survival, tribal, diet, fish, recreational, animal, settlements, tobacco, practices, commercial, labor, activities, preserve, timber, dependent, seal, lands, employment, sweet, goods, resources, economic, tourism, palm.

Words that rhyme with subsistence:
resistance, distance, existence, assistance, persistence, insistence, consistence, coexistence, resistence, outdistance, piece de resistance, angular distance, timeless existence, middle distance, social assistance, sales resistance, mean distance, logistic assistance, passive resistance, least resistance, electric resistance, path of least resistance, acoustic resistance, national assistance, skip distance, electrical resistance, self-subsistence, line of least resistance.

Adjectives that are often used to describe subsistence:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective subsistence:
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Words that sound like subsistence:
subsistence, subsystem, subsistent, subsisting, substance, subsidence, subsists, subsidance, subsistences, absistence, subsisted, subsequence, assistance, subsist, subsister, desistence.