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noun ADJ. abject, absolute, extreme, grinding, severe | widespread | rural, urban VERB + POVERTY alleviate, combat, reduce | eliminate, eradicate hoping to eradicate urban poverty POVERTY + NOUN trap Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures. PREP. in ~ Most of the population lives in grinding poverty. | ~ among the true extent of poverty among the unemployed | ~ of His work displays a poverty of imagination. PHRASES below/on the poverty line families living on incomes below the poverty line
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poverty
verbs
live in poverty
• Half the world is living in poverty.
grow up in poverty
• No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.
die in poverty
• His art was not appreciated and he died in poverty.
be reduced to poverty
(= become very poor )
• By the end of the war, millions of people had been reduced to poverty.
fight/combat poverty
(= take action to get rid of poverty )
• The money should be spent on fighting poverty.
tackle poverty
(= take action to reduce the amount of poverty )
• Our priority is to tackle poverty and global inequality.
reduce poverty
(= reduce the amount of poverty )
• More must be done to reduce child poverty.
alleviate/relieve poverty
formal (= make it less severe )
• What has the West done to alleviate poverty in the world?
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + poverty
extreme/severe poverty
• They live in conditions of extreme poverty.
abject/grinding/dire poverty
(= extremely severe )
• He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.
relative poverty
(= when someone is poor compared with someone else )
• the relative poverty of the southern states
world poverty
• They campaigned for an end to world poverty.
urban/rural poverty
• People come to the capital seeking to escape rural poverty.
child poverty
• There is increasing child poverty in our country.
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