subsistence
英 [səb'sɪst(ə)ns]
美[səb'sɪstəns]
英英释意
- 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 substance
