means of subsistence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeansandsubsistence
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means
noun
uk/miːnz/us/miːnz/
a method or way of ...
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subsistence
noun[U]
uk/səbˈsɪs.təns/us/səbˈsɪs.təns/
the state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but ...
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(Definition ofmeansandsubsistencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The presumption is, of course, that the fly, deprived of itsmeansofsubsistence, died of starvation.
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This means that they had othermeansofsubsistencein order to provide for their material needs.
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Certain groups were exempt-government officials, school teachers, and monks: interestingly, 'poverty' or 'nomeansofsubsistence' was also a ground for exemption.
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On retirement, it must have been almost impossible to muster themeansofsubsistencefrom such a house or smaller crofter's holding.
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Whatmeansofsubsistencewere available to them?
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Those who rejected the new settlers fled to more distant mountainous regions in order to continue slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting asmeansofsubsistence.
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Here, the fellahin were no longer able to pursue their primary calling-that of cultivation-and had nomeansofsubsistencefor themselves or their families.
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This meant that they were in need of othermeansofsubsistence.
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To compensate for losses in income caused by the withdrawal of male breadwinners, households had to find alternativemeansofsubsistence.
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Vending, however, allowed individuals and families to procure somemeansofsubsistencein the city during periods of unemployment or to supplement the household income.
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They had no money and nomeansofsubsistence.
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Anybody who was to give his full time would obviously have to havemeansofsubsistenceprovided for him.
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Women and children have been returned to the reserves without adequatemeansofsubsistence.
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Globally, it is about wholesale loss of life and themeansofsubsistence.
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What kind ofmeansofsubsistenceare intended?
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I recognise, of course, that there are difficulties in using the jobseeker's allowance as a meansofsubsistencefor students in a range of circumstances.
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In other words, reduced to its lowest terms, human life is a struggle for themeansofsubsistence.
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Coming in contact with the law is now reduced to being without visiblemeansofsubsistence.
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Quite obviously, if you leave land idle you leave idle the one thing from which society gets itsmeansofsubsistence.
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