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What is subsistence?

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Subsistence means any of the following:

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

(from wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)

staying alive

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