poverty
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noun
absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, insolvency, lack, leanness, loss of fortune, meagerness, mendicancy, mendicity, moneylessness, narrow means, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, needy circumstances, paucity, pauperism, paupertas, pennilessness, penury, poor circumstances, poorness, privation, reduced circumstances, scantiness, scantity, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slender means, sparseness, starvation, straitened circumstances, straits, subsistence level, tenuitas, unprosperousness, want
associated concepts: proceed in forma pauperus
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index
dearth, deficiency, indigence, paucity, privation
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006