antipoverty
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That helps reduce poverty and supports poor people
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈpɑːvərti/
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antipobreza
- The government launched a new antipoverty initiative to help families struggling with low incomes.
Examples
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Her volunteer work focused on antipoverty efforts aimed at providing homeless individuals with basic resources.
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I was working as an art tutor with preschoolers in an antipoverty program on Jerome Avenue, near where I was living in the Bronx.
Fiction book (1995) -
Many organizations are working together to create effective antipoverty strategies in urban areas.
Surface Forms
antipoverty positive
Morphology
Etymology
Antipoverty comes from the prefix anti- meaning 'against' (as in antibiotic) and the word poverty meaning 'lack of money'. So, antipoverty describes actions or programs that work 'against poverty' to reduce or stop it.