poverty

About 30.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality or state of being poor; lack of money

   get into poverty

2. noun A deficiency of something needed or desired

   poverty of soil

Similar words

poorness impoverishment indigence penury impoverished poor indigent deprived poverty-stricken destitute

Often followed by

and of in is line reduction was level alleviation

Word family

poverties