Usually means: Meeting basic needs for survival.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word subsistence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsistence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subsistence: Merriam-Webster
  3. subsistence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subsistence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subsistence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subsistence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subsistence, subsistence: Wordnik
  8. subsistence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subsistence: Wiktionary
  10. subsistence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subsistence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subsistence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subsistence: Dictionary.com
  14. subsistence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. subsistence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Subsistence (disambiguation), Subsistence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Subsistence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. subsistence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. subsistence: Rhymezone
  20. subsistence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. subsistence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. subsistence: FreeDictionary.org
  23. subsistence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. subsistence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. subsistence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. subsistence: Anthropological Terms
  3. Geography Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Real being; existence.
noun:  The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
noun:  Inherency.
noun:  Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
noun:  (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

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