bare subsistence
Example Sentences
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt argued for wages that would provide workers with “more than a bare subsistence level. I mean the wages of a decent living.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
The mainly rural region is one of the poorest in the country, where rice farming provides only a bare subsistence living and well-paid jobs are scarce.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2023
He and his two married sons now share three tents between them, but he described life there as bare subsistence, with no heating and little health care.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2020
In the beginning, many families lived in crude log shelters and scratched a bare subsistence from tiny corn patches.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
