poverty.

English - Turkish

Definition of poverty. in English Turkish dictionary

fakirlik

45 milyondan fazla Amerikalı fakirlik içinde yaşıyor. - More than 45 million Americans live in poverty.

Fakirlik onun çalışmalarına devam etmesini engelledi. - Poverty prevented him from continuing his studies.

{i} yoksulluk

Yoksulluk onu çalmaya zorladı. - Poverty drove him to steal.

Çoğu hastalık yoksulluktan sonuçlanır. - Many diseases result from poverty.

{i} sefalet

{i} parasızlık

{i} yetersizlik

{i} yoksulluk, fakirlik, ihtiyaç

poverty ençok fakir

yoksul

O yoksulluk nedeniyle oğlunu üniversiteye gönderemedi. - He could not send his son to college because of poverty.

Yoksulluktan dolayı okulu bırakmaktan başka seçimi yoktu. - He had no choice but to give up school because of poverty.

{i} düşkünlük

eksiklik/yoksulluk

poverty line fakirlik ile orta hallilik arasındaki gelir sınırı

{i} eksiklik

meteliksizlik

açlık

Yaklaşık bir milyar insan, açlık ve yoksulluktan muzdariptir. - About a billion people suffer from hunger and poverty.

English - English

Definition of poverty. in English English dictionary: reduced circumstances
living in reduced circumstances.; {n} want, necessity, meanness, a defect; povert; the condition of being poor People can be reduced to poverty if their way of life is threatened, or if they do not have enough land, money or other resources to enjoy a reasonable standard of life Poverty differs from one country to another People in the UK feel they are poor if they do not own a car or a TV Only wealthy people in Kenya would hope to own such things; n A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown; The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need; state of being poor; lack of income for providing material needs; The Federal Government puts out a list of family size and income and determines by that list if a person’s annual income falls below a certain level; 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; A person is “poor” or “in poverty” if they reside in a household with income below the U S poverty threshold, as defined by the U S Office of Management and Budget Poverty thresholds differ by family size and are updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index However, they do not take into account geographic differences in the cost of living; A situation in which a person or household lacks the resources necessary to be able to consume a certain minimum basket of goods The basket consists either of food, clothing, housing and other essentials (moderate poverty) or of food alone (extreme poverty); *: The condition of being without adequate food and money and is officially considered to be very poor and in need of help; n: Inability to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter; This report uses the following definition: one can be said to be living in poverty if one lives in a household whose income (adjusted for household size) is less than 40 percent the country's median household income; the condition of having insufficient resources or income; a lack of basic human needs, such as adequate and nutritious food, clothing, housing, clean water, and health services; {i} state of being poor, destitution, indigence; scantiness, deficiency, scarcity; You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor. Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition. wealth; Measures the proportion of students eligible for free or reduced lunch See also "Student Poverty "; Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty wealth; In this file, families and unrelated individuals are classified as being above or below the poverty level using a poverty index adopted by a Federal Interagency Committee in 1969 and slightly modified in 1981; The Oxford English Dictionary defines poverty as: ‘The condition of having little or no wealth or material possessions; indigence, destitution, want’, and suggests its first use was in AD 1075 In recent years, research tapping the perspectives of poor people has recognized that poverty involves a wider set of deprivations, including vulnerability and exclusion from society, in addition to material destitution; the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions; poorness; {i} indigence; want