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Meanings of extreme poverty in English
Condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs.
Synonyms
Examples for "destitution"
Examples for "destitution"
1
It puts every ordinary working family at risk of falling into destitution.
2
This was done in but few instances, the general destitution forbidding it.
3
There are millions of people living in destitution crying out for help.
4
The cause of the destitution of the proletariat are then set forth.
5
Yet it was still in a pitiable state of weakness and destitution.
1
And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
2
They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
3
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
4
He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
5
His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
1
Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged.
2
And how could she, in her all but absolute poverty, do anything?
3
His condition of absolute poverty had not yet lost the flavour of novelty.
4
He incurred some debts and was soon reduced to absolute poverty.
5
We go from absolute poverty to the lap of luxury.
Usage of extreme poverty in English
1
This organisation provides a safe space for children living in extreme poverty.
2
It came because people were pushed backwards into extreme poverty, he said.
3
Get Foxtel The raises awareness about extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability issues.
4
Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.
5
But what does that mean for the people living in extreme poverty?
6
And having been so rich, now we find ourselves in extreme poverty.
7
At Paris and London he suffered extreme poverty, although admired in society.
8
The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
9
About 12 million live in extreme poverty, lacking clean water and basic services.
10
You see poverty, extreme poverty as a threat to national security.
11
Progress made in reducing extreme poverty since 1990 was at risk.
12
He organises free music programmes for children living in extreme poverty in Panama.
13
This figure amounts to 689 million people living in extreme poverty.
14
The headline gain is a fall in extreme poverty for 36 million people.
15
In cases of extreme poverty the assessors may remit the poll-tax.
16
Kim has set as a World Bank priority ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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Translations for extreme poverty
Russian
Catalan
Extreme poverty through the time
Extreme poverty across language varieties
South Africa
Common
New Zealand
Less common
Ireland
Less common
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