Indigent meaning

ĭn'dĭ-jənt
The definition of an indigent is a person who is poor or needy.

An example of an indigent is a single parent who just lost a job.

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Indigent is defined as someone who has little or nothing.

An example of indigent is a homeless person.

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Experiencing want or need; impoverished.

Distributed food to indigent families.

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Lacking or deficient.
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A poor or destitute person.
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In poverty; poor; needy; destitute.
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Lacking; destitute (of)
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An indigent person.
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Poor; destitute; in need.
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A person in need, or in poverty.
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Origin of indigent

Middle English from Old French from Latin indigēns indigent- present participle of indigēre to need indu- in en in Indo-European roots egēre to lack

Sentence Examples

  • Many workhouses have been established for indigent persons capable of work.

  • early as 1710 public school education was provided for indigent children.

  • He compelled the wealthy to share their riches with the indigent and helpless and to make them their equals in respect of all the comforts and conditions of life.

  • Of this $30,000 was to found Smith's Agricultural School at Northampton, which opened for instruction in 1908; an income of $10,000 was to be paid to the American Colonization Society, but this society failed to comply with the restrictions imposed by the will, and the $Io,000 was incorporated with the Agricultural School fund; and $360,000 was devoted to indigent boys and girls, indigent young women and indigent wido«s.

  • In 1851 a compromise measure was substituted, increasing the state appropriation to $800,000 and exempting indigent parents from the " rate bill," which was finally abolished in 1867.

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