Usually means: Exists or maintains life continuously.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsists: Merriam-Webster
  2. subsists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subsists: Vocabulary.com
  4. subsists: Wordnik
  5. subsists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. subsists: Wiktionary
  7. subsists: Dictionary.com
  8. subsists: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. subsists: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subsists: Legal dictionary

(Note: See subsist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subsist)

verb:  To survive on a minimum of resources.
verb:  (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
verb:  To retain a certain state; to continue.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.
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