existing Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb have an existence, be extant
   be; exist.
   
   • Is there a God?
2. verb support oneself
   survive; live; exist; subsist.
   
   • 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
3. adjective satellite presently existing
   
   • the existing system
4. adjective having existence or being or actuality
   existent.
   
   • 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
5. adjective satellite existing in something specified
   
   • depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream

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