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subsistence level
noun as in poverty line
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His income in the collective was only on the subsistence level.
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Exports and imports were no longer a tiny margin in an economy just above the subsistence level.
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The wage earners were well above the subsistence level as long as trade was good.
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In the first case, a subsistence level is preserved; in the second, new levels of self-constitution are made possible.
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The peasants represented over 80 percent of the total population, most of whom lived at or below subsistence level.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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