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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.
Exports and imports were no longer a tiny margin in an economy just above the subsistence level.
The wage earners were well above the subsistence level as long as trade was good.
In the first case, a subsistence level is preserved; in the second, new levels of self-constitution are made possible.
The peasants represented over 80 percent of the total population, most of whom lived at or below subsistence level.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subsistence level, such as: bare existence, breadline, hand-to-mouth existence, mere existence, pauperism, and poverty trap.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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