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pauperization

DEFINITIONS OF: pauperization

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n the act of making someone poor

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

n a state of extreme poverty or destitution

Synonyms:
indigence, need, pauperism, penury
Types:
beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
the state of being a beggar or mendicant
Type of:
impoverishment, poorness, poverty
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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