| 单词 | subsistence level |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubsistence level subsistence level n. the economic level at which only the bare necessities of life can be provided. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poverty level > subsistence level subsistence level1837 breadline1888 1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 82/1 That class of labourers were as near the bare ‘subsistence level’, when in full employ, as it was possible to place them. 1923 H. W. B. Joseph Labour Theory of Value in Karl Marx ii. 44 Marx believed in the so-called ‘iron law of wages’, in accordance with which there is a constant tendency under capitalism for wages to sink to the bare subsistence-level. 1978 A. J. Huxley Illustr. Hist. Gardening i. 11 Communities have to raise themselves above the subsistence level before they can really afford to grow..plants not strictly utilitarian. 2005 TASS (Nexis) 5 Oct. The officially fixed minimum wage level is set at just 20% of the actual subsistence level. < as lemmas |
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