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{
"poverty":{
"antonyms":[
"affluence",
"opulence",
"richness",
"wealth",
"wealthiness"
],
"definitions":{
": debility due to malnutrition":[],
": lack of fertility":[],
": renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property":[],
": scarcity , dearth":[],
": the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions":[]
},
"examples":[
"He was born in poverty .",
"There is a poverty of information about the disease.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The tragedy has resonated across Mexico and Central America, where all those thus far identified hailed from \u2014 a region where rising numbers are looking to flee violence, corruption and poverty for a life in the United States. \u2014 Arelis R. Hern\u00e1ndez, Washington Post , 30 June 2022",
"Most immigrants come here to save their lives \u2013 whether to flee persecution or poverty . \u2014 Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"Still, for many in Flint, a city that was once a hub of the global auto industry, but that struggled with disinvestment, blight and poverty even before the water crisis, the Supreme Court ruling was seen as yet another betrayal. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022",
"Centers and institutes can gather faculty from across campus to explore topics such as computing, aging, climate change or poverty . \u2014 Gregory Crawford, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"Which was our groundbreaking project to explore the effects of poverty on children. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 28 June 2022",
"The book will chronicle Bono's childhood in Dublin, U2's rise to fame and his activism in the fight against HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty , among other topics. \u2014 Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"There may be no better indication of the jurisprudential soundness of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization than the intellectual poverty of the response from its opponents. \u2014 Gerard Baker, WSJ , 27 June 2022",
"The novel turns on power, appropriation and poverty . \u2014 Pablo Sandoval, Variety , 27 June 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English poverte , from Anglo-French povert\u00e9 , from Latin paupertat-, paupertas , from pauper poor \u2014 more at poor":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4v-\u0259rt-\u0113",
"\u02c8p\u00e4-v\u0259r-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for poverty poverty , indigence , penury , want , destitution mean the state of one with insufficient resources. poverty may cover a range from extreme want of necessities to an absence of material comforts. the extreme poverty of the slum dwellers indigence implies seriously straitened circumstances. the indigence of her years as a graduate student penury suggests a cramping or oppressive lack of money. a catastrophic illness that condemned them to years of penury want and destitution imply extreme poverty that threatens life itself through starvation or exposure. lived in a perpetual state of want the widespread destitution in countries beset by famine",
"synonyms":[
"beggary",
"destituteness",
"destitution",
"impecuniosity",
"impecuniousness",
"impoverishment",
"indigence",
"necessity",
"need",
"neediness",
"pauperism",
"penuriousness",
"penury",
"poorness",
"want"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110900",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"poverty-stricken":{
"antonyms":[
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"definitions":{
": very poor : destitute":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4-v\u0259r-t\u0113-\u02ccstri-k\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"skint",
"threadbare"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224303",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"poverty line":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor according to governmental standards":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That\u2019s the equivalent of 10 million people pulled above the poverty line , thanks to rising wages and an increase in formal employment \u2013 especially in the manufacturing and services sectors. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 17 June 2022",
"The program, first created under President Gerald Ford, is designed to reward work and has been credited with lifting more that 5 million people above the poverty line . \u2014 Irina Ivanova, CBS News , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Low-income households spend three times more income on energy bills than those living above the poverty line , according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. \u2014 Daniel Manzo, ABC News , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Children in Arkansas are being lifted above the poverty line because of the child tax credit payments, Showers said, and that money is being spent in the local economy. \u2014 Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online , 18 Dec. 2021",
"The November payments kept families with 3.8 million children above the poverty line . \u2014 Harold Maass, The Week , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Approximately 440 million Indians live below the poverty line . \u2014 Jennifer Chen, SELF , 16 June 2022",
"About 43 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line . \u2014 Claire Parker, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Nepal, where a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line , is perhaps the clearest example of how extremes of weather \u2014 floods and water shortages on one hand, increasing forest fires on the other \u2014 are disrupting life. \u2014 New York Times , 14 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1901, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130640"
},
"poverty pine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": jersey pine":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162217"
},
"poverty grass":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of several slender grasses: such as":[],
": an erect American grass ( Aristida dichotoma ) with dichotomously branched culms found in dry sandy soil":[],
": an oat grass ( Danthonia spicata )":[],
": beach heather":[],
": broom crowberry":[],
": rabbit-foot clover":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174438"
},
"poverty plant":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": beach heather":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-175825"
},
"Poverty Point National Monument":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"site in northeastern Louisiana featuring prehistoric earthworks":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205804"
}
}