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• n  minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
  social security provided only a bare subsistence
• n  a means of surviving
  farming is a hard means of subsistence
• n  the state of existing in reality; having substance

• Embittered by what they consider their subsistence-level pay ($6,176 to start, $8,442 after 21 years), they resistedat least over the weekendall attempts of the .
• Although Malthus underestimated man's capacity to increase the means of subsistence, he did not underestimate man's capacity to reproduce.
• In this subsistence maize-growing region of a poor, landlocked country in southern Africa, families cling to life on an unforgiving terrain.

News & Articles

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• Kenai River subsistence restricted
  The federal subsistence fishery for king salmon has been restricted, mirroring state restrictions issued Tuesday in response to low numbers of kings during the early run on the Kenai River.
  June 20, 2013 - Peninsula Clarion

Quotes

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• Peter Mandelson in Independent Online
  EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson wrote in his daily blog on Sunday that "there are any number of potential potholes in the road, including India and other countries with large populations depending on subsistence agriculture who are holding out...
• Ratan Tata in Hindu
  Tata, on the other hand, said: "One must recognise that great disparity still exists and that a large portion of the population survives at or below subsistence level while a smaller, more fortunate segment enjoys wealth and well-being.
• Thomas Malthus in Times Online
  Malthus said "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".