bare subsistence

collocation in English

meaningsofbareandsubsistence

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bare
adjective
uk
/beər/us
/ber/
without any clothes or not covered ...
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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 ofbareandsubsistencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The wages of jute mill workers provided them withbaresubsistence.
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Poverty researchers are primarily concerned with how much or little money people have to spend, over and above the poverty line of what is required forbaresubsistence.
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The producers are left with only abaresubsistence; the balance is taken from them, and they have nothing left with which to buy.
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This woman had no assistants: she could not afford them: she was making abaresubsistenceby selling these things at moderate prices.
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Very often people will not be asking what the conditions are, but will be glad to get almost abaresubsistence.
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There can be no serious suggestion of poor people in this country being limited to abaresubsistenceincome.
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In many lands standards are falling already because larger populations are having to use more energy, more transport and more food forbaresubsistence.
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Previously they lived on abaresubsistence, but with the loss of the benefit they are now almost starving.
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It is time we realised that many of our workers receive wages which represent abaresubsistence.
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The figure must be abovebaresubsistencelevel.
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In those places where people are unemployed, vast numbers are living at or below thebaresubsistencelevel.
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It is only abaresubsistence, and nothing more.
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They depend entirely on overseas trade for everything exceptbaresubsistenceliving.
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The scales of requirements allow an appreciable margin overbaresubsistence, since it is desired that no one should be denied a reasonable standard of living.
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The first one is that a very large section of wage earners do not receive when working an amount in excess of the amount required forbaresubsistence.
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In his case it is just abaresubsistenceliving, while other people who are getting public money have far more than they need upon which to live.
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Privation was general, clothing could not be replenished, credit was restricted and hardly anywhere did the standard rise above abaresubsistence.
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Calculations have been made purporting to show that it would be physically possible to produce, in this country, food providing sufficient calories for thebaresubsistenceof the present population.
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He argued that private property in land resulted in the land-owners getting the whole of the wealth of the country beyond abaresubsistencewage for the workers.
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Industrial disputes are no longer fought for the difference between poverty andbaresubsistence.
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