1. (

• exist ,
• be

) have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" ;

2. (

• exist ,
• survive ,
• live ,
• subsist

) support oneself; "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" ;

1. (

• existing

) presently existing; "the existing system" ;

2. (

• existent ,
• existing

) having existence or being or actuality; "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" ;

3. (

• existing

) existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream" ;