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impoverishment

DEFINITIONS OF: impoverishment

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n the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Synonyms:
poorness, poverty
Antonyms:
wealth, wealthiness
the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money
Types:
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deprivation, neediness, privation, want
a state of extreme poverty
destitution
a state without friends or money or prospects
indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
a state of lacking money
beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
the state of being a beggar or mendicant
Type of:
financial condition
the condition of (corporate or personal) finances

n the act of making someone poor

Synonyms:
pauperisation, pauperization
Type of:
deprivation, privation
act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
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