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poverty::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | impoverishment, poorness |
| Type of | financial condition |
| Has types | destitution, impecuniousness, indigence, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, deprivation, want |
Examples of poverty
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The real issue here is the low scores posted by US students who live in poverty.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We are trying to alleviate our people from poverty not push them into suffering.
From the upi.com
Alonso left his native Mexico 20 years ago to escape poverty on his family farm.
From the suntimes.com
For this year, 200 percent of the poverty level is $44,100 for a family of four.
From the dailyherald.com
If you want to attack the root cause of low academic performance, think poverty.
From the forbes.com
The closure devastated the economy and drove thousands more deeper into poverty.
From the suntimes.com
Yet we now have more poverty as measured by government than we did in the 1970s.
From the suntimes.com
Are we willing to bet that the market can drive down global poverty and disease?
From the forbes.com
It works in partnership with millions of people around the globe to end poverty.
From the theepochtimes.com
- The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. ...
- Thomas Joseph Abate III (born August 20, 1978, in Lawrence, Massachusetts), also known as Poverty, is a hip-hop artist and actor from the New England area.
- The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need; Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas
- Low-income classifications to which certain households are assigned based on the household's annual income reported in the 1993 RECS. "Below 100 percent of poverty" encompasses a group of households with incomes below the poverty level as defined by the Bureau of the Census. ...
- People are said to be living in poverty if their income and resources are so inadequate as to preclude them from having a standard of living considered acceptable in Irish society. ...
- A certain level of material deprivation below which an individual suffers physically, emotionally and socially. There are a number of methods of determining this level of deprivation.
- "To be impoverished is to lack or be denied adequate resources to participate meaningfully in society" (from Krieger N. A Glossary for Social Epidemiology, J Epidemiol Community Health 2001; 55:693-700.)
- The state of one with insufficient resources.--Anitha R 22:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
