subsistence
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The existence of a copyright in a work as a matter of law, given that the qualifying conditions are met.
The first issue was the subsistence of copyright in the database.
Business noun
The minimum level of income or resources needed to sustain basic existence.
Millions still farm at bare subsistence, producing barely enough to feed their own families.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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