Crossword-Solution: SUBSISTENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subsistence | n. | Real being; existence. |
| Subsistence | n. | Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies. |
| Subsistence | n. | That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. |
| Subsistence | n. | Same as Hypostasis, 2. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SUBSISTENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Means of supporting life | 1 answer |
| the minimum (as of food and shelter) necessary to support life | 1 answer |
| the state of existing in reality | 1 answer |
| Having substance | 2 answers |
| Kind of farming | 3 answers |
| meagre resources | 10 answers |
| alimony | 12 answers |
| Nourishment | 21 answers |
| BREAD and butter | 21 answers |
| Sustenance | 22 answers |
| pension | 22 answers |
| livelihood | 32 answers |
| Survival ___ | 36 answers |
| continuance | 42 answers |
| Keep | 65 answers |
| Support | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SUBSISTENCE (5)
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.” Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
Subsistence agriculture, including forestry, is the backbone of the economy, with over 70% of the population living in the countryside.
Subsistence agriculture predominates, with cocoa, coffee, and wood products providing income, foreign exchange, and government revenues.
Oftentimes they were asleep, but occasionally might be heard talking together, in voices between a speech and a snore, and with that lack of energy that distinguishes the occupants of alms-houses, and all other human beings who depend for subsistence on charity, on monopolized labour, or anything else but their own independent exertions.
Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
Quotes with SUBSISTENCE (3)
The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure…
I was once driven north along Central Park, all the way from Chinatown. We hailed the cab in front of a building where Orthodox Jews still lived, so they shut down an elevator on Saturdays. In the taxi, I was with my mother. We were visiting her aunt, my great aunt, who was 93. She had no memory of the old country, Lithuania, but she'd been born there. Her parents escaped the pogroms so she could survived a century here. Her American prosperity was half a century of subsisten…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2014).