subsistence level
Example Sentences
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In areas like western Guatemala, where coconut, corn and banana plantations stretch along the highway, many people scrape by at a barely subsistence level.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023
Although cities on the coast often maintained commercial or networking ties with each other, society in western Europe was overwhelmingly rural, and production was largely at the subsistence level.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Some focus on the plight of those living at subsistence level; others defend the need to maximize job growth and retention.
From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2019
“A roof over their head. A subsistence level of income. Safety from domestic violence. There’s nothing extravagant about services that help people get and keep those essentials of life.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017
“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
