Collocations withsubsistence
These are words often used in combination withsubsistence.
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bare subsistence
The wages of jute mill workers provided them with bare subsistence.
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basic subsistence
It does so at the cost of transferring demographic risks to pensioners, but without endangering the basic subsistence function of the pensions.
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means of subsistence
The presumption is, of course, that the fly, deprived of its means of subsistence, died of starvation.
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mere subsistence
Mere subsistence economies at home would have been incompatible with the life style and aspirations of ruling families.
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subsistence activity
Most of the inhabitants of outlying islands engage in subsistence activity only.
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subsistence fishery
Directly, a few are caught for their meat by subsistence fisheries.
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subsistence fishing
This book proposes a policy of non-extraction from reefs, with only subsistence fishing by local populations, and commercialization based on tourism and aquaculture.
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subsistence hunting
In the next section we present the two prototypes of illegal hunting, namely commercial hunting and subsistence hunting.
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subsistence lifestyle
The indigenous people are dependent on the environment to provide a subsistence lifestyle.
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subsistence needs
Pension levels are defined in relation to subsistence needs, and are usually pitched considerably below net earnings during the period of paid employment.
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subsistence production
Most of these families depend, to a large extent, on subsistence production and are found among the 66% group of ' rural poor'.
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subsistence strategy
This suggests that the delayed benefits from hunting need to be included when considering whether hunting is a viable subsistence strategy.
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