What is the meaning of existing?

verb

  • Have an existence, be extant.
    • usage: "Is there a God"
  • Support oneself.
    • usage: "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

adjective

  • Presently existing.
    • usage: "the existing system"
  • Having existence or being or actuality.
    • usage: "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
  • Existing in something specified.
    • usage: "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"
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