Pauperization \Pau`per*i*za"tion\, n.
The act or process of reducing to pauperism. --C. Kingsley.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pauperization
n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, beggary,
pauperism]
2: the act of making someone poor [syn: pauperisation, impoverishment]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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