Definition of "poverty"
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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
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Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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