S U B S I S T E N C E
(n) the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level.
The first morning I walked by her house, the woman looked up from her work in her scrubby subsistence garden and smiled at me.
Source: http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-03-01/elizabeth-gilberts-life-changing-story-from-indonesia-that-you-havent-heard
The money his mom gave him was for his subsistence.
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