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What does subsistence mean?

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

Noun
  1. Real being; existence.
  2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
  3. Inherency.
  4. something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
  5. (theology) embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
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It is now illegal to hunt fur seals, except for an exemption allowing Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos to continue to hunt at a subsistence level.
Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers.
We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts.
Concern is mounting in the country over continued low rainfall and its impact on the country's subsistence farmers and agro-industry.
Women, the primary pool for secondary teachers, generally lived on these subsistence wages, supplemented by room and board with a local family.

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