| poverty | 1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." "The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty." (Prov. Xxiii. 21) 2. 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. <botany> Poverty grass, a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields. Synonym: Indigence, penury, beggary, need, lack, want, scantiness, sparingness, meagerness, jejuneness. Poverty, Indigence, Pauperism. Poverty is a relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution. Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded state. Origin: OE. Poverte, OF. Poverte, F. Pauvrete, fr. L. Paupertas, fr. Pauper poor. See Poor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| poverty areas | City, urban, rural, or suburban areas which are characterised by severe economic deprivation and by accompanying physical and social decay. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Indigents, Low Income Population, Indigent, Low Income Populations, Low-Income Populations, Population, Low Income, Population, Low-Income, Populations, Low Income, Populations, Low-Income
Synonyms : Area, Poverty, Areas, Poverty, Ghetto, Poverty Area, Slum
| poverty of thought |
The mental state of being devoid of thought and having a feeling of emptiness.
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the absence or scarcity of requisite substance or elements.
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| poverty | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
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| poverty | small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America |
| poverty | a level of personal income defining the state of poverty |
| poverty | a level of personal income defining the state of poverty |
| poverty | (British) a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off |
| poverty | poor enough to need help from others |
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