Definition of poverties in English

Wiktionary

poverties (Noun)
Plural of poverty.

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poverties, noun, plural of poverty.

WordNet

Noun Plural: poverties
poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
		poorness, impoverishment
		wealthiness, wealth the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"
		financial condition the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
		neediness, privation, deprivation, want the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it"
		destitution a state without friends or money or prospects
		indigence, pauperism, penury, pauperization, need a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

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Wiktionary

poverty (Noun)
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
poverty (Noun)
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.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

poverty (n.)
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
poverty (n.)
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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

poverty
State in which the individual lacks the resources necessary for subsistence.
poverty
Lack of the means of subsistence.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

poverty
pov′ėr-ti, n. the state of being poor: necessity: want: meanness: defect.—adjs. Pov′erty-strick′en, Pov′erty-struck, reduced to a state of poverty: in great suffering from poverty. [O. Fr. poverte (Fr. pauvreté)—L. paupertas, -tatis—pauper, poor.]

Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗

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Poverty parts friends.
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Poverty breeds strife.
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Poverty is the mother of health.
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When poverty comes in at the door, friendship leaps out of the window.
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Poverty parteth good fellowship.
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Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows.

Wikipedia

Poverty is not having enough money to have basic needs like food, water, shelter, or toilets. Many people in different countries live in poverty, especially in developing areas of Africa, Latin America and some parts Asia.

There are different ways to measure poverty. The World Bank says that "extreme poverty" is when someone needs to live on less than US$ 1 a day (that dollar is an ideal one. It has been adjusted to rule out certain effects of inflation, meaning that prices of things increase higher than what a person is paid, and other price level differences). "Moderate poverty" is when people need to live on less than 2 such dollars a day. In the year 2001, 1,100,000,000 people were seen as "extremely poor", and 2,700,000,000 were seen as "moderately poor".

In the developed world this does not apply. There, many people are seen as the "working poor". They have a job, but do not earn enough money. They need to spend a lot of that money for living expenditures, so that at the end of the day, little of it is left.

There are different ways to tell if a country is rich or pooor. The Gross Domestic Product, or GDP and HDI are two of those measures. Gross Domestic Product which is the money made from trade from inside the country. the product made from another country and sold within the country does not count even if a product is made.

HDI, meaning the Human Development Index is a different matter. It is determined by life expectancy and adult literacy rates. Places in Africa li