Subsistence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUBSISTENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the minimum (as of food and shelter) necessary to support life
• the means of maintaining or supporting oneself
• the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself, especially at a minimal level
• the state of remaining in force or effect
• Real being; existence.
• Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
• That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
• Same as Hypostasis, 2.
• minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
• a means of surviving
• the state of existing in reality; having substance
• denoting or relating to production at a level sufficient only for one's own use or consumption, without any surplus for trade
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• real being; existence; the condition of remaining in existence; continuation, persistence; an essential characteristic quality of something that exists; the character possessed by whatever is logically conceivable

Words related to SUBSISTENCE

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Words that contain SUBSISTENCE

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How to use SUBSISTENCE in a sentence

• Their subsistence is principally obtained by hunting and fishing.
• They afford the wild animals their shelter and their abode, and yield them the greater part of their subsistence.
• He had had twelve children by one wife, giving an impressive lesson, that peaceful habits and a plentiful supply of the means of subsistence, are conducive to their usual results.
• Often no public provision was made for their pay, equipments, or subsistence.
• The natives are numerous, but they appear to depend more upon hunting than the sea for their subsistence.
• You will be without fuel, without subsistence for yourselves or forage for your animals.
• But once broken up, with your force split into bits, you will neither be able to get subsistence, nor indeed will you get off without paying dearly for it.
• Subsistence will be pushed back, temporarily, an exceedingly long way.
• Thousands of farmers cultivating land of the lower grade were forced to go West or were driven to the margin of subsistence.
• Scripture declares the order of succession of origin, subsistence, and dissolution in the passage, Taitt.
• Every unit in the whole animate world, not only chooses the place of its abode, but also the modes and means of its subsistence.
• There were no public stores at that place, but those which were necessary for the daily subsistence of the men there.
• But that day would, I think, be distant, and we should long keep our workmen in Europe, while Europe should be drawing rough materials, and even subsistence, from America.
• The first term includes debts to the officers and soldiers for pay, bounty, and subsistence.
• Thrown upon the world, he picked up a scanty subsistence with his pen, for a time.
• Moreover, they, being only human, think themselves entitled to a modest subsistence out of the proceeds of the property.
• But both hesitated to cut themselves off from a sure, if lean, subsistence.
• The tunny-fishery, on which the whole of the adjacent country chiefly depended for its subsistence, was annihilated.
• To direct the production, preservation, collection, and distribution of food for the army required a man of rare capacity and character at the head of the subsistence department.
• Wild fowl, game, and fish are still abundant, and until recently have furnished to the Indians the chief source of subsistence.
• I had no money or property of any kind, and was obliged to accept any means that offered of earning a subsistence.
• This shows how clear, even to the native mind, was the contrast between these two modes of subsistence.
• We should now have to kill one of our oxen every few days, as our other means of subsistence had been so completely used up.
• The country along the seaboard was generally well supplied with food, but the supply was nowhere near large enough to furnish regular permanent subsistence for an army.
• From the Falls to the Chopunnish nation, the plains afforded neither deer, elk, nor antelope for our subsistence.
• It was necessary, first of all, to find some means of subsistence, for men do not live on air, and as they had nothing of their own, they took what belonged to others.
• Paul, laboring with their own hands for a subsistence? All the Indians ask of Harvard is, take away your pretended gift.
• But how were they to subsist? Their thought was not of subsistence, but of gold.
• He had some bread in his pocket, which he had intended for subsistence until he could reach a land of liberty.

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