1 to obtain enough food or money to stay alive:
These people subsist on rice, beans, fruits, and vegetables.
The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is therefore a reasonable expectation.
Elderly people subsisting on meagre incomes in council accommodation.
This applies not just to everything that subsists, but to all order, every law, and every foundation of something's being true and good.
Certainly the latter, especially when too abstract, have difficulty in triggering processes of imagination, and often subsist quite apart from them.
For all intents and purposes, what constituted the subsistence economy operated as a closed economy, communities subsisting on what they had to hand.
The high frequency of caries likely suggests that these individuals were subsisting on a mixed diet.
As a result, linear representations of base-superstructure relations had subsisted in the literature, generating more slogans than informed analysis.
They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.
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