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subsistence 音標拼音: [səbs'ɪstəns] n. 生存,生活 生存,生活 subsistence n 1: minimal ( or marginal) resources for subsisting; " social security provided only a bare subsistence" 2: a means of surviving; " farming is a hard means of subsistence" 3: the state of existing in reality; having substanceSubsistence \ Sub* sist" ence\, n. [ Cf. F. subsistance, L. subsistentia.] 1. Real being; existence. [ 1913 Webster] Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. -- Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies. [ 1913 Webster] 3. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. [ 1913 Webster] His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Theol.) Same as { Hypostasis}, 2. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] 101 Moby Thesaurus words for " subsistence": Lenten, Spartan, TLC, abstemious, accommodation, accommodations, aliment, alimentation, alimony, ascetic, austere, bed, bed and board, being, board, board and room, bread, bread and butter, care, daily bread, dwarfed, dwarfish, economic support, endowment, ens, entity, esse, essence, exiguous, existence, facilities, food, frugal, impoverished, jejune, keep, lean, life, limited, livelihood, living, lodgings, maintenance, manna, materiality, meager, mean, meat, miserly, mothering, narrow, niggardly, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, occurrence, paltry, parsimonious, poor, presence, price support, provision, puny, rations, salt, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsidization, subsidy, subsisting, substantiality, subvention, support, survival, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tender loving care, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, upkeep, victuals, watered, watery
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