0 past simple and past participle of exist
1 to be, or to be real:
2 to live, or to live in difficult conditions:
It's in the poorer, underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
The English king, Arthur, is a somewhat shadowy figure who may not have even existed.
Laws exist to stop companies exploiting their employees.
The largely cordial atmosphere that existed between parties is more difficult to account for.
The effect of this has been to emphasize the structural stability and the degree of systematicity that existed even in early forms of these languages.
In some respects, this is surprising, as urban planning had existed on an institutional basis only since the early twentieth century.
