minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence" the state of existing in reality; having substance a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence
{i} existence, being; something which supports or maintains life or existence, keep, livelihood; state of being real
minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
-The customary and traditional uses of wild renewable resources for personal or family consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools, or transportation; for making and selling handicraft articles out of the nonedible byproducts of fish and wildlife resources; for barter or sharing for personal or family consumption; and for customary trade
In subsistence farming or subsistence agriculture, farmers produce food to eat themselves rather than to sell. Many black Namibians are subsistence farmers who live in the arid borderlands
Subsistence is the condition of just having enough food or money to stay alive. below the subsistence level The standard of living today is on the edge of subsistence