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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Subsistence VS livelihood
What is the difference between subsistence and livelihood?
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They can technically mean the same thing, but subsistence is generally used to mean scraping together the bare necessities to keep body and soul together, whereas livelihood is usually used in a more generic way to mean making a living that generally connotes more than just bare subsistence.
- They can technically mean the same thing, but subsistence is generally used to mean scraping together the bare necessities to keep body and soul together, whereas livelihood is usually used in a more generic way to mean making a living that generally connotes more than just bare subsistence.
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They can technically mean the same thing, but subsistence is generally used to mean scraping together the bare necessities to keep body and soul together, whereas livelihood is usually used in a more generic way to mean making a living that generally connotes more than just bare subsistence.
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Where you said 'bare subsistence' you mean 'minimum subsistence'? Is 'minimum' one of the definitions of 'bare'?
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In this instance, bare coupled with subsistence means the minimum amount needed to survive.
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