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pauperization
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pauperization has 2 senses
- pauperization(n = noun.state) indigence, need, pauperism, penury - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" is a kind of impoverishment, poorness, poverty
- pauperization(n = noun.act) impoverishment, pauperisation - the act of making someone poor; Array is a kind of deprivation, privation
has particulars: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
Derived form verb pauperize1
Derived form verb pauperize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pauperization, n.
The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
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