subsistence economy
noun[C]
ECONOMICSukusaneconomyin whichpeopleproducefood,clothes, etc. fortheirown use, and wherefood, etc. is notboughtorsold:
Thecountryismovingaway from asubsistenceeconomytowards aviablemarketeconomy.
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subsistence economy
Also known as asubsistenceeconomy, a traditional economy is defined by bartering and trading.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Even with the introduction of agriculture, hunting and fishing continued to be important parts of thesubsistenceeconomy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The only segment that expanded was thesubsistenceeconomy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The theft of indigenous land by logging companies jeopardizes theirsubsistenceeconomyand so their future.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At the same time, she was doing research for her master's thesis on the reservation'ssubsistenceeconomyand quickly became involved in local issues.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the history of the world, before the first cities, all humans lived in asubsistenceeconomy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The main economic activity of the approximately 800 families on the island is farming, with fishing and tourism augmenting thesubsistenceeconomy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For example, asubsistenceeconomymay be transformed into a manufacturing economy, or a regulated mixed economy is liberalized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In fact, bamboo was the backbone and the backbreaker of theirsubsistenceeconomy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The term was originally used to refer to a specific ethnic group, restricted to a limited time period with a distinctivesubsistenceeconomyand technology.
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