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How to pronounce beggary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms begging, mendicancy
Type of solicitation
Derivation beg
Type Words
Synonyms mendicancy, mendicity
Type of indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury

Examples of beggary

beggary
Hence this relationship has abetted beggary and turned it into an organised form.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Forsaking bragging rights today to avoid beggary tomorrow is not a terrible tradeoff.
From the economist.com
They advance against that standard, rather than the pestilence, beggary and injustice of serfdom.
From the economist.com
Many of these people were forced into beggary due to the lack of jobs and racial discrimination.
From the en.wikipedia.org
If accepted by the people, it would herald a decade-long process of reducing Greek workers to beggary.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
They also claim to have reduced taxes, unemployment, and beggary, and to have started work projects.
From the en.wikipedia.org
We know that rampant consumption on its best day empties our pockets, and on its worst day will reduce us to beggary.
From the forbes.com
It became vagrancy, it became beggary.
From the sfgate.com
Finally, donation of money to the poor or to charity was generally frowned on as it was seen as furthering beggary.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  • The state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
  • Begging (or panhandling in the US) is to request a donation in a supplicating manner. Beggars are commonly found in public places such as street corners or public transport, where they request money, most commonly in the form of spare change. ...
  • The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty; The fact or action of begging