support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
If something exists, it is present in the world as a real thing. He thought that if he couldn't see something, it didn't exist Research opportunities exist in a wide range of pure and applied areas of entomology
To exist means to live, especially under difficult conditions or with very little food or money. I was barely existing. the problems of having to exist on unemployment benefit
have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land