Subsistence

n.	1.	Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. - Stillingfleet.
	2.	Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
	3.	That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. - Addison.
	4.	(Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.

Noun	1.	subsistence - minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
	2.	subsistence - a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
	3.	subsistence - the state of existing in reality; having substance

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