subsist
suhb sist
- v  support oneself
                    
                        
                            
 Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
- The Isle of Wight impressively recycles 50% of its household waste, so the gasification plant will subsist on the other half, the so-called residual waste.
- Twitter LinkedIn Facebook These are questions that keep drug companies, as well as the television stations and magazines that subsist on their ad dollars, up at night (Ambien .
- And you hear it in Chiang Saen, a town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand, where locals used to subsist on whatever they could make from farming and smuggling--until Chinese .