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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deprivation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ The greatest burdens of the war - destruction, disruption of life and economic deprivation - have fallen on the rural population.
▪ Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation, such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.
▪ Given the extent of economic deprivation, it was an impressive record.
▪ Do not the problems of the third world, which is still suffering economic deprivation, need to be addressed?
emotional
▪ Given their workload, cuddling or talking to children is a luxury, and emotional deprivation an inevitable outcome.
▪ Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.
maternal
▪ This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby's work on maternal deprivation.
multiple
▪ The indicators used are often extremely remote surrogates for true risk, and multiple deprivation is rarely treated as interactive rather than additive.
relative
▪ They suggest therefore that greater emphasis be given to housing tenure in evaluating relative deprivation.
▪ Comparing themselves with that mythical family, everyone ends up with feelings of relative deprivation.
▪ Some problems of aggregation remain for the relative deprivation perspective, but the examination of groups works well for the mobilization perspective.
▪ At the extreme this engenders a sense of relative deprivation which it is now fashionable to take as the measure of poverty.
▪ A deprivation score was used to compare the relative deprivation or affluence of rural and urban areas.
▪ Conversely, in motivating individuals to leave or withdraw, relative deprivation of individual rewards is a major influence.
▪ There is therefore a sense of relative deprivation among Shetlanders.
▪ Poverty should then perhaps best be seen more realistically in terms of relative rather than absolute deprivation.
sensory
▪ It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation.
▪ He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.
▪ An old-fashioned paper book for Ben - one he had specifically asked for - on sensory deprivation.
▪ No human being can do this for long; experiments in sensory deprivation have shown this clearly enough.
▪ There's been long term sensory deprivation, so it's not surprising.
▪ The effect is rather like being in a sensory deprivation tank, in that you can't move or react at all.
▪ In reality, sensory deprivation has made the horse bored silly.
▪ Suppose we think of individuals which are reared throughout their lives in a situation where there is sensory deprivation.
severe
▪ Paradoxically, it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine.
▪ Not all disciplinary abuses in the home are the severe deprivations or punishments that deform the lives of some children.
social
▪ It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved.
▪ Complex and difficult lives are simplified into iconic statements of social deprivation.
▪ The inclusion of measures of social deprivation is also poorly thought out.
▪ Despite many attempts to link drug use with social deprivation, the association is spurious.
▪ New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation.
▪ Many cases of mild mental handicap are thus caused by social deprivation.
▪ Grief, loneliness, poor health, financial worries, social deprivation all contribute to a feeling of acute depression.
urban
▪ In short, unemployment must be considered as the primary agent causing and maintaining urban deprivation.
■ NOUN
sleep
▪ Many of the men were suffering from shell-shock, sleep deprivation and cold, he added.
▪ The rock-and-roll and sleep deprivation, the chair, even leaving me out in the corridor to hear the screams.
▪ The effects of sleep deprivation were therefore not simple.
▪ During a period of sleep deprivation the effects of sleeplessness may become cumulative.
▪ The effects of sleep deprivation appear to reduce mental and physical functioning.
▪ An individual who has been deprived of sleep is more difficult to arouse because sleep that follows sleep deprivation is very deep.
■ VERB
suffer
▪ The excluded black and white citizens in the urban areas seem set to continue to suffer deprivation and disadvantage.
▪ The researchers questioned whether parents of premature infants suffered from deprivation due to their long physical separation from their hospitalized infants.
▪ Indeed most people, however accomplished and apparently confident, suffer from praise deprivation.
▪ Young and far from home, they suffer from emotional deprivation and severe isolation.
▪ Do not the problems of the third world, which is still suffering economic deprivation, need to be addressed?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A strong musical culture survived the deprivations of slavery.
▪ Sleep deprivation causes memory loss, paranoia, and other problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An old-fashioned paper book for Ben - one he had specifically asked for - on sensory deprivation.
▪ In each case the violation alleged by those attacking minimum wage regulation for women is deprivation of freedom of contract.
▪ It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation.
▪ Racism is a tragedy beyond socioeconomic deprivation; it speaks of the total deprivation of the church today.
▪ The deprivation had been the loss of her father, the constant loss of friends and contacts.
▪ There is therefore a clear relationship between deprivation and crime.
▪ Translated this means illiteracy, homelessness, hunger, deprivation and death.
▪ When I hear about deprivation and injustice in the world, I get up and change the channel. 71.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deprivation

Deprivation \Dep`ri*va"tion\, n. [LL. deprivatio.]

  1. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

  2. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.

  3. (Eccl. Law) the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.

    Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deprivation

mid-15c., "removal from office or position," from Medieval Latin deprivationem (nominative deprivatio), noun of action from past participle stem of deprivare (see deprive).

Wiktionary
deprivation

n. 1 (context countable English) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement. 3 (context countable English) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. 4 (context followed by “of” English) lack

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WordNet
deprivation

  1. n. a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want]

  2. the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: loss]

  3. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" [syn: privation]

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Usage examples of "deprivation".

Its larger significance, its greater meaning, Eccles takes to be this: suffering, deprivation, barrenness, hardship, lack are all an indispensable part of the education, the initiation, as it were, of any of those who would follow Jesus Christ.

Originally Emeraude was to have been there, and Oily had intended asking some amusing people to meet her, but Emeraude had absented herself suddenly from town, announcing that she needed meditation, and she was going to immerse herself in a sensory deprivation tank.

Deprivation of heterosex in my program leads to an accumulation of tension: disassociation reaction, abusiveness to attendants, flickers of bad French.

I inhaled them, at peace for the first time in many days, the pressures of heterosex deprivation removed.

Disneyland, Jeanine Hilt had an acute asthma attack, went into respiratory failure, and suffered oxygen deprivation so severe that she lost all brain function: in other words, she developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, exactly the same fate that had befallen Lia.

Steeley, we have all heard ACOAs and AlaTeens and ACONAs and ACOGs and WHINERS relate clear cases of different kinds of abuse: beatings, diddlings, rapes, deprivations, domineerment, humiliation, captivity, torture, excessive criticism or even just utter disinterest.

The new campus radical has a cause, a multipronged attack on as many fronts as necessary: if not civil rights, then foreign policy or structural deprivation in domestic poverty pockets.

They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion.

By now his head was thick with the sluggish residue of stale ale, sleep deprivation, and overexcited nerves.

It had been worse than a deprivation to leave the coves of Crete with their sea caves and rainbow fish, the sun-drenched forests where woodpeckers chattered to Dryads, and come to the squalid town of Endor, which lay directly between Philistia and Israel and changed masters as often as the moon changed phases.

Those who were Puritanically affected refused obedience, and were punished by suspension or deprivation.

He knew that many of his Reman brethren had allowed imprisonment and deprivation to dull their senses, but he had worked hard to keep his sharp and honed.

Loading a rifle or smoothbore required fine motor skills, and most soldiers arrived at a battlefield exhausted after miles of marching, after too little food, and after much sleep deprivation.

In some ways, these were relatively mild, especially compared to the deprivations to follow.

Finally, with the exception of the desert areas of northwest Iraq, the conditions of central Iraq are not as harsh and debilitating as those of the Kuwaiti Theater, meaning that Iraqi military personnel would likely feel any deprivations less immediately or powerfully than was the case in 1991.