poverty : Idioms & Phrases

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Poverty grass

  • noun small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
    beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa.
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  • (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
Webster 1913

poverty level

  • noun a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
    poverty level.
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poverty line

  • noun a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
    poverty level.
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poverty trap

  • noun a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off
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poverty-stricken

  • adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
    needy; necessitous; impoverished; destitute; indigent.
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