subsistence allowancen.

1824 C. Lushington Hist., Design, & Present State Relig., Benevolent & Charitable Inst. 259 Drummers and fifers serving in the Army..are entitled to claim for their children the usual subsistence allowance.

1870 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 46/2 The general plan was to pay the unemployed labourers a subsistence allowance of money from the parish without exacting any labour in return.

1907 B. Thomson Story of Dartmoor Prison iv. 30 The daily subsistence allowance was obviously inadequate..but this could hardly be held an excuse for the frequent breaches of parole.

1961 Kenya Legislative Council Deb. 30 May 597 Sir, what about those poor people who are on the minimum wage, or who, in fact, are living on subsistence allowance?

2004 L. Ackers & H. Stalford Community for Children? iv. 93 Lebon claimed a subsistence allowance from the Belgian welfare authorities.

1848 Rep. Sel. Comm. Misc. Expenditure xi. 309 in Parl. Papers: Rep. Comm. XII. ii. 1 Travelling and subsistence allowances of the two Inspectors of Registration, at 9 l. 9 s. per week each.

1879 J. Owens Plain Papers: Hist. Excise 42 A scheme of subsistence allowance to supervisors when absent from home more than eight hours.

1918 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Nov. 1500/1 These employees receive the regular Navy pay for their respective ratings and are given subsistence allowance in lieu of quarters and mess privileges.

1977 Z. L. Zile in D. D. Barry et al. Soviet Law after Stalin I. 265 The Code required management to pay the employee..a subsistence allowance for the time on the road.

2010 Times (Nexis) 13 Apr. (Business section) 37 The CAA salary figures for 2009 include gross basic pay, overtime, flying bonuses and subsistence allowances.

1860 Trades' Societies & Strikes (National Assoc. Promotion Social Sci.) 311 This subsistence money, the miner is practically compelled, by penalties, to carry to the truck shop; for, if not, the subsistence allowance is stopped, and he must wait for his pay till the end of the fortnight or month.

1903 M. G. Gerard Leaves from Diaries iv. 68 As all sepoys and followers have to provide their own food in India, and are only paid monthly in arrears, it was absolutely necessary..to advance them a small subsistence allowance.

1930 Eng. Hist. Rev. 45 381 If money was forthcoming, then in the intervals between pay..the troops were paid a weekly imprest known as lendings, really a subsistence allowance.

1994 L. M. Jackson in E. M. Scott Those of Little Note ii. 47 Women also were employed by the Russian-American Company as translators, for which they received clothing and subsistence allowances on account.