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
A bad enough war in Greece itself could have easily undermined harvests, already near a subsistence level, and when they were destroyed by these conflicts, towns, fortresses and palaces could not be rebuilt.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
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
Conceição Moreira Duarte gets by on subsistence level with her son and husband in the nearby woodland, surviving on government benefits and her husband’s sporadic salary as a day laborer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2016
“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
