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'means of subsistence' is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to refer to the means by which someone is able to support themselves and their family. For example, "The loss of his job forced him to find a new means of subsistence."
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"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.
For him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence.
"Their innate indolence renders them inattentive to the very means of subsistence".
Some of the sellers are simply the rural poor, seeking a means of subsistence.
In the Mogollon 4 period the means of subsistence continued as before.
"I don't have any other means of subsistence other than to have to work".
She knew if she were caught smuggling out the means of subsistence, she would be arrested.
"He was unemployed the past eighteen months, and his means of subsistence is open to question," one of them reported.
Nobody, in the Beveridge sense of the term, is lacking the means of subsistence: nobody is "poor".
By artha, Kautilya meant "the means of subsistence of humanity," which is, primarily, wealth and, secondarily, earth.
It's a rare musical that cites the political economist Malthus and his prediction that the population will increase faster than the means of subsistence.
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