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UK
/ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃmənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- the act of making someone poor
How To Use impoverishment In A Sentence
- One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom. Is Something Better Than Nothing?
- The balance of this first fytte consists mostly of lengthy dialogue detailing the knight's impoverishment.
- To the extent that it actually boosts consumption at the expense of investment and the foreign trade balance, the net result from a macro perspective is overall impoverishment.
- A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances. alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
- It is not true that Third World impoverishment is due to Western economic supremacy.
- Less education and longer hours of domestic work obviously contribute to women's impoverishment by making it harder for them to attain well-paying jobs.
- Still, despite all sorts of turmoil, Rushdie has never surrendered to this seemingly all-pervasive impoverishment of our imaginative faculties.
- He predicted the growing immiseration and impoverishment of the working class in capitalist societies.
- The colonial connection appears to be more likely a route to impoverishment than riches.
- Hellé did not retire immediately from racing, but her story now was one of betrayal, impoverishment and obscurity.