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Meaning of PAUPERIZATION

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the act of making someone poor
  2. [n]  a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
 
 Synonyms: beggary, impoverishment, indigence, need, pauperisation, pauperism, penury
 
 See Also: deprivation, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, privation

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pau`per*i*za"tion\, n.
The act or process of reducing to pauperism. --C. Kingsley.

 

 

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