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How to pronounce privation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deprivation, neediness, want
Type of poorness, impoverishment, poverty
Type Words
Synonyms deprivation
Type of social control
Has types starvation, starving, pauperization, impoverishment, pauperisation


nutritional privation.
deprivation of civil rights.

Examples of privation

privation
The sequence here is critical to the effort to explain a self-inflicted privation.
From the theatlantic.com
In the postwar years of timber privation it became a default domestic product.
From the smh.com.au
After weeks of privation MPs weren't going to pass up a chance to be pompous again.
From the guardian.co.uk
The inability to secure her regular Guardian was surely a privation too far.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
It would be a tragedy if resolving the conflict required equal or greater privation.
From the smallwarsjournal.com
The themes of privation and sardonic defiance are conveyed at first glance.
From the time.com
In their zeal to bring religion to the frontier, they endured every sort of privation.
From the dailyherald.com
Non-professional drivers are already getting a taste of gas-pump privation.
From the time.com
Sterling work has been undertaken by the school in an area of privation.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • A state of extreme poverty
  • Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
  • (privates) genitalia: external sex organ
  • 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. ...
  • The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute; The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life; The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation
  • (prived) Deprived
  • (Privations) The ideal types of corporeal beings and things. These types are not abstractions, but actual entities or existences which are the causes of the corporeal beings and things that they produce or evolve forth from themselves. ...
  • (Privates) Additional information associated with internal X Server structures, such as colormaps, GCs, pixmaps, or screens.