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subsistence - use in sentences
Converse of object
- incur: If you are appointed, you will be able to claim expenses for travel and subsistence incurred in carrying out your duties.
- travel: UNISON ensures you are not out of pocket through traveling, subsistence, and accommodation costs.
- claim: Can I use my travel warrants for home to duty travel instead of claiming subsistence?
- receive: London is home to almost three quarters of all UK asylum seekers receiving subsistence only.
- provide: Having paid the rent, nine shillings remained from William's weekly wage to provide a minimum subsistence.
- have: Such a proposal would have a significant impact- 40 % of asylum seekers supported by NASS have elected to have the subsistence only package.
Adjective modifier
- bare: The fragile urban economy provides many with only the barest subsistence.
- daily: Any claim for overnight expenses must be accompanied by the hotel receipt and is claimed instead of daily subsistence.
- basic: He began to give away everything he received except what was needed for his basic subsistence.
- own: In the long run, the robber destroys his own subsistence by dwindling or eliminating the source of his own supply.
- human: This most important augmentation in the supply of human subsistence has now commenced.
Modifies a noun
- allowance: For this they received a subsistence allowance of nine pence.
- farming: Nearly all the 300 households depend on subsistence farming for their living.
- farmer: Ordinary people remained poor, subsistence farmers or worked in low-paid jobs on the big estates.
- agriculture: This has resulted in land use change, particularly an increase in subsistence agriculture at the expense of forest land.
- expense: Travel and subsistence expenses only will be paid in such cases.
- whaling: Norway defies the ban while some indigenous peoples in Greenland, Siberia and the US state of Alaska are allowed traditional subsistence whaling.
Noun used with modifier
- night: The Office now has only one class of night subsistence allowance.
- day: Day subsistence cannot be claimed during any 24-hour period covered by an overnight allowance.
- travel: Travel subsistence and other costs likely to be incurred by the PA - basically the PA should not be out of pocket.
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