Results for subsistence

Definitions of subsistence:

part of speech: noun

State of being subsistent: real being: means of supporting life: livelihood.

part of speech: noun

The means of living or supporting life; livelihood; support.

part of speech: noun

Means of support, as food and clothing; act or state of being existent.

Usage examples for subsistence:

• We will suppose the means of subsistence in any country just equal to the easy support of its inhabitants. "An Essay on the Principle of Population", Thomas Malthus

• The demand for labour, according as it happens to be either increasing, stationary, or declining, or to require an increasing, stationary, or declining population, regulates the subsistence of the labourer, and determines in what degree it shall be either liberal, moderate, or scanty. "On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation", David Ricardo

• Before the war they owned labor, land, and subsistence "The Negro", W.E.B. Du Bois