English-Portuguese translations for subsistence

• subsistência
  A economia de subsistência, as explorações agrícolas detidas pelos próprios agricultores e a auto-suficiência foram destruídas. The subsistence economy, owner farming and self-sufficiency have been destroyed.
  Muitos Albaneses vivem da agricultura de subsistência e só alguns produtos, poucos, são exportados. Many Albanians live from subsistence farming and only a few products are exported.
  A agricultura de subsistência parece-me ser certamente a resposta mais óbvia. It seems to me that subsistence agriculture is undoubtedly the most obvious answer.

Definition of subsistence

• Real being; existence
• Inherency
• Something that is required to stay alive
• Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality

Examples

• the subsistence of qualities in bodies

Related words

• subsistence economy
• subsistence crop
• subsistence minimum
• keep; subsistence
• means of subsistence