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bare subsistence

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meanings of bareand subsistence


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bare
adjective
uk /beər/ us /ber/
without any clothes or not covered ...
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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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Examples of bare subsistence


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The wages of jute mill workers provided them with baresubsistence.
Poverty researchers are primarily concerned with how much or little money people have to spend, over and above the poverty line of what is required for baresubsistence.
The producers are left with only a baresubsistence; the balance is taken from them, and they have nothing left with which to buy.
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This woman had no assistants: she could not afford them: she was making a baresubsistence by selling these things at moderate prices.
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Very often people will not be asking what the conditions are, but will be glad to get almost a baresubsistence.
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There can be no serious suggestion of poor people in this country being limited to a baresubsistence income.
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In many lands standards are falling already because larger populations are having to use more energy, more transport and more food for baresubsistence.
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Previously they lived on a baresubsistence, but with the loss of the benefit they are now almost starving.
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It is time we realised that many of our workers receive wages which represent a baresubsistence.
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The figure must be above baresubsistence level.
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In those places where people are unemployed, vast numbers are living at or below the baresubsistence level.
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It is only a baresubsistence, and nothing more.
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They depend entirely on overseas trade for everything except baresubsistence living.
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The scales of requirements allow an appreciable margin over baresubsistence, since it is desired that no one should be denied a reasonable standard of living.
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The first one is that a very large section of wage earners do not receive when working an amount in excess of the amount required for baresubsistence.
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In his case it is just a baresubsistence living, while other people who are getting public money have far more than they need upon which to live.
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Privation was general, clothing could not be replenished, credit was restricted and hardly anywhere did the standard rise above a baresubsistence.
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Calculations have been made purporting to show that it would be physically possible to produce, in this country, food providing sufficient calories for the baresubsistence of the present population.
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He argued that private property in land resulted in the land-owners getting the whole of the wealth of the country beyond a baresubsistence wage for the workers.
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Industrial disputes are no longer fought for the difference between poverty and baresubsistence.
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