subsistence
生活
definition
noun
the minimum income needed for subsistence
the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level.
rights of occupation normally only continue during the subsistence of the marriage
the state of remaining in force or effect.
example
means of 'subsistence'
'subsistence' agriculture
She worked as a cleaning lady, waitress, nursing home aid, only to realize that a single job does not provide enough money for 'subsistence' .
They had no need to conspire in the expropriation of the means of 'subsistence' by capitalists, because a free labor market was in place.
Other factors contributing to such households are housing shortages and the need to generate income through both wage labor and 'subsistence' production.
Throughout much of Africa, the main rural production is 'subsistence' agriculture, which cannot meet the needs of an expanding population.
Hunting has traditionally been an important means of 'subsistence' in the Caucasus Mountain region.
Participation in the market economy has blurred the strict demarcation of gender roles associated with 'subsistence' production.
No one complained of being late for work: most of the residents were unemployed and had lived here for years without visible means of 'subsistence' .
'subsistence' expenses
They have a fallback in 'subsistence' production and other cash crops, such as cocoa and copra.
The pittance paid out in compensation for retrenchment has provided barely a few months 'subsistence' , with former employees being thrown into abject poverty.
Forcibly separated from the means of 'subsistence' , by acts of enclosure in England, clearances in Scotland, they had little choice but to work for Gradgrind in his mill.
The Navy's land seizure knocked out most of the island's agriculture and effectively blocked the development of tourism, leaving commercial fishing as the primary means of 'subsistence' .
The bank's lien would, after all, continue only during the 'subsistence' of the debenture, which the debtor would at all times have the right to redeem.
The principle that there is a perpetual tendency in the race of man to increase beyond the means of 'subsistence' is usually attributed to Malthus.
Many spouses live apart for considerable periods of time; often the economic situation is so desperate that they have to look for means of 'subsistence' on their own.
Millions who have been unemployed for many years are losing their means of 'subsistence' .
In a classic 'subsistence' economy, producers are in a direct conversation with nature and make limited demands on a variety of natural system elements.
They have always played an important role in agriculture, both in 'subsistence' production and in the production of cash crops on small peasant farms.
the agricultural working class were deprived of a 'subsistence'
Although most own very small fields, rights even in these can provide supplementary 'subsistence' .
The only duty to the former client which survives the termination of the client relationship is a continuing duty to preserve the confidentiality of information imparted during its 'subsistence' .
'subsistence' agriculture
There can be no real human liberation, Marx explained, unless the productivity of labour is so high that the majority of the population is no longer forced to spend most of its time trying to secure its means of 'subsistence' .
I wonder if these were partly caused by the urban residents themselves who have long since shown little concern, even disdain, for those who trade physical labour for 'subsistence' .
the minimum income needed for 'subsistence'
Alone among the New Deal agricultural agencies, they provided 'subsistence' and operating credit for farmers.
For those who embarked on a literary career, the only recourse was to draw their 'subsistence' from the value of their writing when they signed their contract with a bookseller.
Marriage was far less important for slave women than for white women; slave women, unlike their white counterparts, neither shared property with their husbands nor received 'subsistence' from them.
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