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bn:00046487n

Noun Concept

Categories: Measurements and definitions of poverty, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with short description, English Poor Laws, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

indigence need penury pauperism pauperization

A state of extreme poverty or destitution WordNet 3.0

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A state of extreme poverty or destitution WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Pauperism is poverty or generally the state of being poor, or particularly the condition of being a "pauper", i.e. receiving relief administered under the English Poor Laws. Wikipedia

The state of being reliant on charity or public social assistance, often associated with deep poverty and homelessness Wikidata

Extreme poverty or destitution. OmegaWiki

Poverty. Wiktionary (translation)

Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Wiktionary

Lack of means of subsistence. Wiktionary (translation)

The state of being a pauper; poverty. Wiktionary

The act or process of reducing to pauperism. Wiktionary

Their indigence appalled him WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A general state of need exists among the homeless WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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poverty

social phenomenon