deprivation | | |
n. (state) | 1. deprivation, neediness, privation, want | a state of extreme poverty. |
| ~ impoverishment, poorness, poverty | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. |
n. (attribute) | 2. deprivation, loss | the disadvantage that results from losing something.; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" |
| ~ disadvantage | the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position. |
n. (act) | 3. deprivation, privation | act of depriving someone of food or money or rights.; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" |
| ~ social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action. |
| ~ pauperisation, impoverishment, pauperization | the act of making someone poor. |
| ~ starving, starvation | the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine.; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care" |
hard up | | |
adj. | 1. hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched | not having enough money to pay for necessities. |
| ~ poor | having little money or few possessions.; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
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