"subsistence" is probably misspelled. Trying subsistence instead Definition of subsistence
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[ noun ] minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting

Examples

"social security provided only a bare subsistence"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` We must solve the problems which have forced these people to depend_upon ADC for subsistence '' , Martin said .

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support

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[ noun ] a means of surviving

Examples

"farming is a hard means of subsistence"

Used in print

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land_sites necessary for family subsistence .

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survival exist

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[ noun ] the state of existing in reality; having substance

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being

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