pauperization
- noun
- /ˌpɔːpəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Formal
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pauperización
- The pauperization of many families during the recession led to a rise in homelessness.
Examples
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If this context is not altogether bad, a growing sense of regression and the pauperization of academic research in African arts and in African anthropology/ethnography is felt in Europe.
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Concentration of wealth—and the concomitant pauperization of the majority—occurs even in an environment of overall economic growth.
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Medicaid generally pays only for nursing home care and requires "pauperization" before eligibility can be established.
Academic text (1994) -
Additional surveys of these types are needed to further substantiate the pauperization hypothesis held by people with long experience in Maasailand.
Academic text (1994) -
Emigration, increasing pauperization, and undercapitalization of industry savaged the social landscape.
Academic text (1990) -
Not only have they failed in modernizing their societies, but their rule has led to an impoverishment of the middle class and to the pauperization of the masses.
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An answer to the first question is that pauperization forces the farmers to subdivide their minimal holdings into still smaller units, which assures them some form of subsistence.
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Their pauperization not only meant decreasing opportunities for well-paying jobs, but in the symbolic realm, they were relegated to a second-class status.
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The bottom line for the pastoral Maasai, who are still the majority of Kenyans in their own districts of origin, is a progressive process of pauperization initiated during the very early colonial period in Kenya.
Academic text (1994) -
The flagrant marginalization of large segments of society, especially among the youth, coupled with the impoverishment of the middle classes and the pauperization of the popular masses, resulted in the loss of legitimacy for the state and its elites.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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2.0
A situation of having very little money and few things
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6.2
Not having basic things you need, like food, shelter, or sleep
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7.9
A situation when someone has no money, home, or way to live
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6.8
A situation when people become very poor and lack basic things
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9.3
A lack of basic things needed to live, like food or shelter
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9.7
A situation with almost no money and few basic things needed to live
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2.5
A situation when someone has little money and few belongings
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9.9
A state of being very poor with almost nothing
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9.9
A very poor state where someone has almost no money, food, or shelter
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6.8
A situation when someone has no money
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4.6
Being very poor and not having basic things like food and shelter
A lack of money for basic needs like food and shelter
A state of having little or no money
A situation in which someone has very little money
The state of being very poor and having to beg for money or food
Antonyms
How Poor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pauperization comes from an old Latin word pauper, meaning 'poor', plus the ending -ization, which means 'the process of'. So pauperization is the process of becoming or being made 'poor', which is why it describes people or places falling into deep poverty.