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What does subsist mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word subsist? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To survive on a minimum of resources.
  2. (philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
  3. To continue; to retain a certain state.
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They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
The room's sink, dishwasher, cooktop, and refrigerator mean the clients don't have to subsist on takeout meals.
That was the food supply on which we were going to subsist after the apocalypse.
They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.
Just as carnivores eat meat and herbivores eat plant matter, frugivores subsist primarily on fruit.
The business, as a trading enterprise, continued to subsist as an identifiable item of property.

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