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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution;
- Example: "their indigence appalled him"
- Example: "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
[syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization]

2. the act of making someone poor;
[syn: pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pauperization \Pau`per*i*za"tion\, n.
   The act or process of reducing to pauperism. --C. Kingsley.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, pauperism,
         pauperization]
    2: the act of making someone poor [syn: pauperization,
       pauperisation, impoverishment]