poverty
/ˈpɑvərti/
noun
- The state of being extremely poor; lack of money or material possessions.
- He grew up in poverty but became a successful doctor.
- Many families live in poverty in rural areas.
- The charity works to reduce poverty around the world.
- A lack or shortage of something desirable or necessary.
- The region suffers from a poverty of natural resources.
- There is a poverty of imagination in that movie.
- The poverty of the soil made farming difficult.
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