Subsistence
noun
The state of having enough food and money to stay alive.
Many people in the world are living at the subsistence level.
Often appears as...
- subsistence farming
- subsistence level
noun
The action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself, especially at a minimal level.
They were paid a pittance, merely enough for subsistence.
Often appears as...
- bare subsistence
- human subsistence
noun
The self-perpetuating nature of physical entities.
The subsistence of culture stems from its ability to self-perpetuate.
Often appears as...
- subsistence of culture
- subsistence of practices
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Formal
Academic
noun
The fact of something existing in a substantial manner.
The subsistence of love depends on the mutual trust and understanding between two people.
Often appears as...
- subsistence of love
- subsistence of trust
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The state of having enough food and money to stay alive.
Many people in the world are living at the subsistence level.
Often appears as...
- subsistence farming
- subsistence level
noun
The action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself, especially at a minimal level.
They were paid a pittance, merely enough for subsistence.
Often appears as...
- bare subsistence
- human subsistence
noun
The self-perpetuating nature of physical entities.
The subsistence of culture stems from its ability to self-perpetuate.
Often appears as...
- subsistence of culture
- subsistence of practices
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The fact of something existing in a substantial manner.
The subsistence of love depends on the mutual trust and understanding between two people.
Often appears as...
- subsistence of love
- subsistence of trust
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/2Basic Needs
Focuses on having just enough resources to live, especially in poor conditions.
Many refugees work hard just for subsistence.
Pro Tip 2/2Poverty Context
Often used to describe minimal living standards in discussions about poverty.
Charities aim to uplift communities beyond mere subsistence.
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Making data free for...
somebody mobile in Africa let's say oh yeah yeah subsistence farmers can text and find out crop prices or they'll say yes I saw cell phones they're reporting malaria outbreaks in there and they're doing this kind of thing and all of that's true but it clouds your mind if that's your if that's your model for thinking about mobile in Africa you're missing something really important
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What would happen if we...
Now, a subsistence wage scenario, you might think, is exotic and strange, but it's actually the usual case in human history, and it's how pretty much all wild animals have ever lived, so we know what humans do in this situation. Humans basically do what it takes to survive, and this is what lets me say so much about the em world.
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Cory Richards: Pushing...
They always used subsistence fishing. They lived on the ocean, and from the ocean. And as the Indonesian government has started to mandate that they stay in one spot, that has changed everything. How do you tell that story? That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving,
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In uncertain times,...
You recognize what your child needs and you step up to provide it the best you can. Thinking like a mother means seeing the whole world through the eyes of those who are responsible for its most vulnerable people. And we're not used to thinking of subsistence farmers as philanthropists,
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Trust, morality -- and...
up to the Highlands very isolated tribes subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millennia there are 800 different languages in the highlands these are the most primitive people in the world and they indeed also release oxytocin okay so oxytocin connects us to other
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Caribou Blanket PIPE Life...
to work on hides that was just normal way of life it's a special feeling when you've got your food and you're betting on a mountain that you can see right out the window while you're in your cabin that's what subsistence living is it's just nice just like doing the dishes
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Paul Zak: Trust,...
where I went up to the highlands -- very isolated tribes of subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millenia. There are 800 different languages in the highlands. These are the most primitive people in the world. And they indeed also release oxytocin.
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Alaska Twins Live Off...
jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in the bush we really feel very strongly that we are deeply involved in the whole cycle of life and death subsistence is a huge part of living in the bush because
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Adorable Tamarins Face...
an income to the local communities so they don't have to rely on forest resources for subsistence it's hoped such ambitious and long-term plans will provide the next generation with the means and motivation to preserve both
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Bill Gates: The...
And we are causing problems for subsistence farmers and sea-level rise and wildfires and natural ecosystems. And so the adaptation side is even more underfunded than the mitigation side. For example, helping poor farmers
Video examples
Making data free for...
somebody mobile in Africa let's say oh yeah yeah subsistence farmers can text and find out crop prices or they'll say yes I saw cell phones they're reporting malaria outbreaks in there and they're doing this kind of thing and all of that's true but it clouds your mind if that's your if that's your model for thinking about mobile in Africa you're missing something really important
Video examples
What would happen if we...
Now, a subsistence wage scenario, you might think, is exotic and strange, but it's actually the usual case in human history, and it's how pretty much all wild animals have ever lived, so we know what humans do in this situation. Humans basically do what it takes to survive, and this is what lets me say so much about the em world.
Video examples
Cory Richards: Pushing...
They always used subsistence fishing. They lived on the ocean, and from the ocean. And as the Indonesian government has started to mandate that they stay in one spot, that has changed everything. How do you tell that story? That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving,
Video examples
In uncertain times,...
You recognize what your child needs and you step up to provide it the best you can. Thinking like a mother means seeing the whole world through the eyes of those who are responsible for its most vulnerable people. And we're not used to thinking of subsistence farmers as philanthropists,
Video examples
Trust, morality -- and...
up to the Highlands very isolated tribes subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millennia there are 800 different languages in the highlands these are the most primitive people in the world and they indeed also release oxytocin okay so oxytocin connects us to other
Video examples
Caribou Blanket PIPE Life...
to work on hides that was just normal way of life it's a special feeling when you've got your food and you're betting on a mountain that you can see right out the window while you're in your cabin that's what subsistence living is it's just nice just like doing the dishes
Video examples
Paul Zak: Trust,...
where I went up to the highlands -- very isolated tribes of subsistence farmers living as they have lived for millenia. There are 800 different languages in the highlands. These are the most primitive people in the world. And they indeed also release oxytocin.
Video examples
Alaska Twins Live Off...
jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in the bush we really feel very strongly that we are deeply involved in the whole cycle of life and death subsistence is a huge part of living in the bush because
Video examples
Adorable Tamarins Face...
an income to the local communities so they don't have to rely on forest resources for subsistence it's hoped such ambitious and long-term plans will provide the next generation with the means and motivation to preserve both
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
And we are causing problems for subsistence farmers and sea-level rise and wildfires and natural ecosystems. And so the adaptation side is even more underfunded than the mitigation side. For example, helping poor farmers
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
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Boots Riley
American Musician
A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.
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Stewart Butterfield
Canadian Businessman
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.
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Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
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Robyn Davidson
Australian Writer
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
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Shaffi Mather
Indian Businessman
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
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Ertharin Cousin
American Public Servant
We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.
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George Berkeley
Irish Philosopher
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
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Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
Quote examples
Boots Riley
American Musician
A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.
Quote examples
Stewart Butterfield
Canadian Businessman
I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.
Quote examples
Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
Quote examples
Robyn Davidson
Australian Writer
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
Quote examples
Shaffi Mather
Indian Businessman
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Quote examples
Ertharin Cousin
American Public Servant
We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.
Quote examples
George Berkeley
Irish Philosopher
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
Quote examples
Charles Darwin
English Scientist
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Quote examples
Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
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