basic subsistence

collocation in English

meaningsofbasicandsubsistence

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basic
adjective
uk
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us
/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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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 ofbasicandsubsistencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It does so at the cost of transferring demographic risks to pensioners, but without endangering thebasicsubsistencefunction of the pensions.
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The common also provided somebasicsubsistenceto the local poor.
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Difficulties with finding the surplus needed for rent could force the abandonment of a holding before poor harvests actually threatenedbasicsubsistence.
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Therefore, the opportunity for today's student to supplement what is abasicsubsistencegrant with vacation work is severely limited.
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If income support is abasicsubsistencelevel, how can giving people less be justified?
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It is vital to helpbasicsubsistenceand peasant agriculture.
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As members of society, people have a right tobasicsubsistence.
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That will eat into thebasicsubsistenceminimum designed for food, clothing, and fuel.
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We want to ensure that the rate of pension is satisfactory to coverbasicsubsistenceneeds.
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Nurses make 70 000 forints a month, and teachers make 90 000; pensioners havebasicsubsistencedifficulties.
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For society to punish people by depriving them ofbasicsubsistenceis inhumane; for their dependants, it is particularly inhumane.
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But the income support level is abasicsubsistencelevel; claimants will not be able to afford a little extra to top up their rent.
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Nothing could be more obscene than a well-stocked and well-equipped military in a country filled with desperate poverty and people who are unable to gain abasicsubsistence.
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Those people have heard about and documented the theft of livestock and food and the wasting of crops on which many thousands depend forbasicsubsistence.
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Whose chief purpose was to prevent speculation inbasicsubsistencegoods among producers, distributors and retailers.
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Basicsubsistencewas an equal share of wild and domestic food resources.
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Residents are self-sufficient in terms ofbasicsubsistencethrough agriculture.
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He accepted only what was necessary for hisbasicsubsistence.
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Visiting human rights organizations have concluded that the conditions are troublesome with regard tobasicsubsistence, but that the human rights situation is satisfactory.
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The main concern of most human rights organizations seems to be the refugees' problems ofbasicsubsistence, living on a meager diet of foreign aid.
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