0 to get enough food or money to stay alive, but no more: --
1 to obtain enough food or money to stay alive: --
These people subsist on rice, beans, fruits, and vegetables.
It could be more lucrative to subsist by robbery than to seek work.
They were village farmers, living in palisaded towns and subsisting largely on the corn, squash, and beans raised by the women in communal gardens.
Rather than the earth serving as a shelter or incubator for life, life here subsists under constant and almost completely uncontrollable threat from the outside.
They did so specifically because, having lost their land and employment, they sought khedivial charity to enable them and their families to subsist.
Private ownership could persist and inequalities would subsist, but man, and especially woman, would be free to fulfil their natures.
But it does mean that the acquisition of private property must not interfere with the rights of individuals to subsist.
This work is unfortunately lost, and all that remains of it are the traces which subsist in other treatises in which it has been used.
They are now so poor that they are starving, frequently subsisting on soup made of fatback boiled in water.
