Usually means: Growing food enough for family.
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  1. subsistence farming: Merriam-Webster
  2. subsistence farming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subsistence farming: Vocabulary.com
  4. subsistence farming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. subsistence farming: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. subsistence farming: Dictionary.com
  7. Subsistence farming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. subsistence farming: Rhymezone
  9. subsistence farming: FreeDictionary.org
  10. subsistence farming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. subsistence farming: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. subsistence farming: Wiktionary

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  1. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. subsistence farming: Encyclopedia

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subsistence farming)

noun:  (agriculture) Farming in which almost all of the livestock raised or crops produced are used by the farmer and their family to survive, without significant surplus for sale or trade.

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