poverty
poverty definition
pov·erty (päv′ər tē)
noun
- the condition or quality of being poor; indigence; need
- deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy poverty of the soil, her poverty of imagination
- smallness in amount; scarcity; paucity
Etymology: ME poverte < OFr povreté < L paupertas < pauper, poor
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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