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Definition of subsistence level in English: subsistence level(also subsistence wage) noun A standard of living (or wage) that provides only the bare necessities of life. many peasants hardly existed above subsistence level Example sentencesExamples - Hence, if their wages were to rise, the ensuing increase in population would soon return wages to their subsistence level.
- Every culture that has developed agriculture and lives above a subsistence level cultivates flowers.
- Our farmers are still living at a subsistence level, are largely landless and unorganized; in this condition they must face the expansion of foodstuffs from many giant food corporations.
- By keeping wages close to subsistence level, the Arkansas-based retailer offers low prices that draw herds of gleeful shoppers away from the competition.
- Karl Marx claimed that capitalism keeps wages at a subsistence level with a reserve army of the unemployed.
- Here they received a subsistence wage in the form of rations.
- For volunteers it's not so great - our subsistence wage doesn't exactly go too far in the west.
- Workers, paid piece-rates, tried to keep up with the machines and tried to work fast enough to make a subsistence wage.
- At the same time, the wealthier citizens are called upon to take an active, personal role in alleviating poverty and elevating the poor above the bare subsistence level provided by entitlements.
- Marx argues that wages will fall back to their values: essentially a subsistence wage.
- Democrats also argue that every worker has the right to earn a subsistence wage.
- Prior to European contact these early aboriginals survived at a subsistence level by fishing, hunting and gathering; living off the bounty of the land and moving from one encampment to the next with the change of the seasons.
- Indeed most of the farming was almost at a subsistence level.
- Here was a person who owned half of Montana, attacking the mass of the world population, who were trying to rise above the subsistence level, to better their lot a bit.
- The project has attracted thousands of applicants desperate to earn a subsistence wage to escape poverty.
- The plantation would have to front the labour-gang members a subsistence wage pending the final reckoning.
- If the poorer peasantry were living at a bare subsistence level those with larger holdings, along with the landlords, were doing well from what has been described as a trade boom.
- How can one spend money on changing names of places if people need development, at least up to a subsistence level?
- All this for wages far-below subsistence level, even by El Salvador's low standard of living.
- Assuming that this is a subsistence wage, all the landowner is doing is providing a day's life to those hired later in the day.
Definition of subsistence level in US English: subsistence level(also subsistence wage) nounsəbˈsistəns ˈlevəl A standard of living (or wage) that provides only the bare necessities of life. many peasants hardly existed above subsistence level Example sentencesExamples - Workers, paid piece-rates, tried to keep up with the machines and tried to work fast enough to make a subsistence wage.
- By keeping wages close to subsistence level, the Arkansas-based retailer offers low prices that draw herds of gleeful shoppers away from the competition.
- Marx argues that wages will fall back to their values: essentially a subsistence wage.
- Here was a person who owned half of Montana, attacking the mass of the world population, who were trying to rise above the subsistence level, to better their lot a bit.
- At the same time, the wealthier citizens are called upon to take an active, personal role in alleviating poverty and elevating the poor above the bare subsistence level provided by entitlements.
- Our farmers are still living at a subsistence level, are largely landless and unorganized; in this condition they must face the expansion of foodstuffs from many giant food corporations.
- For volunteers it's not so great - our subsistence wage doesn't exactly go too far in the west.
- Democrats also argue that every worker has the right to earn a subsistence wage.
- The plantation would have to front the labour-gang members a subsistence wage pending the final reckoning.
- The project has attracted thousands of applicants desperate to earn a subsistence wage to escape poverty.
- If the poorer peasantry were living at a bare subsistence level those with larger holdings, along with the landlords, were doing well from what has been described as a trade boom.
- Here they received a subsistence wage in the form of rations.
- Hence, if their wages were to rise, the ensuing increase in population would soon return wages to their subsistence level.
- Prior to European contact these early aboriginals survived at a subsistence level by fishing, hunting and gathering; living off the bounty of the land and moving from one encampment to the next with the change of the seasons.
- Indeed most of the farming was almost at a subsistence level.
- How can one spend money on changing names of places if people need development, at least up to a subsistence level?
- Every culture that has developed agriculture and lives above a subsistence level cultivates flowers.
- Assuming that this is a subsistence wage, all the landowner is doing is providing a day's life to those hired later in the day.
- All this for wages far-below subsistence level, even by El Salvador's low standard of living.
- Karl Marx claimed that capitalism keeps wages at a subsistence level with a reserve army of the unemployed.
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