Usually means: Economy based on basic survival.
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  1. subsistence economy: Merriam-Webster
  2. subsistence economy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Subsistence economy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. subsistence economy: Wiktionary

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  1. Subsistence economy: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

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noun:  (economics) an often moneyless economy characterized by minimal surplus and exchange of goods and services, low division of labor and rudimentary technology

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