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View synonyms for subsistence level

subsistence level

noun

  1. a standard of living barely adequate to support life
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

His income in the collective was only on the subsistence level.

Exports and imports were no longer a tiny margin in an economy just above the subsistence level.

The wage earners were well above the subsistence level as long as trade was good.

In the first case, a subsistence level is preserved; in the second, new levels of self-constitution are made possible.

The peasants represented over 80 percent of the total population, most of whom lived at or below subsistence level.

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