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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deprived
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deprived area (=where many poor people live)
▪ He grew up in one of the toughest and most deprived areas of Glasgow.
a deprived childhood (=without enough money, food, attention etc)
▪ Many children living in these areas have very deprived childhoods.
a deprived/disadvantaged background
▪ The school has a high percentage of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ I was struck more and more by the fact that there are comparable celebrations of human brilliance in the most deprived places.
▪ The most deprived regions are still suffering from cuts in social services, the police force and education.
▪ As the most deprived section of the population, they need the most help - and urgently.
▪ These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
▪ For this reason the centre was placed in a deprived area of East London.
▪ Marked also was the apparent increase in the discrepancy between revitalising and deprived areas both between and within North Side neighbourhoods.
▪ The two policy approaches - attracting staff to deprived areas and improving the standard of deprived areas - are not mutually exclusive.
▪ And a scholarship will be given to a specially gifted child from a deprived area.
▪ In 1967-8 Education Priority Areas programmes were specifically area-based and targeted on the inner city and other deprived areas.
▪ A survey examined experiences and attitudes in the more socially deprived areas of the city.
child
▪ The buses were offered to a leading charity to take deprived children on a trip to Woburn Safari Park.
▪ There were accordingly several moves to bring services for the young offender closer to those for the deprived child.
▪ But by no means do all ordinary children do well, nor all deprived children poorly.
▪ I know of a school not far from this place where there are many highly deprived children, but they work well.
▪ Social services departments cooperate closely with voluntary organizations concerned with the welfare of deprived children.
▪ Voluntary effort has been prominent in the development of services for deprived children.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A deprived childhood can lead to emotional problems later.
▪ Children growing up in deprived areas are far more likely to turn to crime and drug abuse.
▪ Girls from deprived backgrounds often become pregnant at an early age.
▪ Most mass demonstrations of this type happen in places where people are enormously deprived.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Customers come mainly from the more socially deprived homes within the area.
▪ Desperately deprived groups do not organize to bring about the downfall of a political system.
▪ Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
▪ For this reason the centre was placed in a deprived area of East London.
▪ He said the closures would be a blow to youngsters in deprived areas.
▪ I asked her if she did not feel deprived, having never experienced school life.
▪ I feel deprived if I can't have the same as everyone else.
▪ Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deprived

deprived \deprived\ adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity; boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law.

Syn: disadvantaged.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deprived

1550s, "dispossessed," past participle adjective from deprive. As a euphemism for the condition of children who lack a stable home life, by 1945.

Wiktionary
deprived
  1. Subject to deprivation; poor. v

  2. (past participle of deprive English)

WordNet
deprived

adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law" [syn: disadvantaged]

Usage examples of "deprived".

Fourthly, since the atmosphere is not deprived of its own accidents, it would have at the one time its own accidents and others foreign to it.

Men deprived of civilization reverted to the basic, animalistic drives sharpened by necessity.

When sexual appeal and a tantalizing nimbus wrapped around them and exuded a neediness after being deprived of enjoyment by an uncaring or deceased husband, Antonio was always willing to accommodate them.

Since the Emergency Court of Appeals, subject to review by the Supreme Court, was given exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of any order issued under the act, it resulted that the district courts were deprived of the power to inquire into the validity of orders involved in civil or criminal proceedings in which they had jurisdiction.

Chapter V Renewal of the feud between the Bishop and Don Gregorio -- Wholesale excommunications in Asuncion -- Cardenas in 1644 formulates his celebrated charges against the Jesuits -- The Governor, after long negotiations and much display of force, ultimately succeeds in driving out the Bishop -- For three years Cardenas is in desperate straits -- In 1648 Don Gregorio is suddenly dismissed, Cardenas elects himself Governor, and for a short time becomes supreme in Asuncion -- The Jesuits are forced to leave the town and to flee to Corrientes -- A new Governor is appointed in Asuncion -- He defeats Cardenas on the field of battle -- The latter is deprived of his power, and dies soon after as Bishop of La Paz The Governor, like a prudent soldier, was biding his time.

Badenoch, Prince Charles with his army came down into the vale of Athole, and visited, with Tullibardine, the castle of Blair Athole, the noble property of which the marquis had so long been deprived, owing to his constancy to the cause of the Stuarts, but which would again be his own were this great enterprise successful.

He considered the bishops of Italy as the most impartial and respectable judges among the Christians, and as soon as he was informed that they had unanimously approved the sentence of the council, he acquiesced in their opinion, and immediately gave orders that Paul should be compelled to relinquish the temporal possessions belonging to an office, of which, in the judgment of his brethren, he had been regularly deprived.

Deprived of any powers of arrest, able only to request the police of the various states of Germany to make an arrest when positive identification has already been made, unable to squeeze more than a pittance each year out of the federal government in Bonn, the men of Ludwigsburg worked solely because they were dedicated to the task.

While in Brahminism man was deprived of his individuality, and regarded only as an effluence from Brahma, and tormented by the fear of hell, and by the thought of a ceaseless process of countless new births awaiting him after death, whence the necessity of the most painful penances and chastisements, Sakya-muni began with man as an individual, and in morals put purity, abstinence, patience, brotherly love, and repentance for sins committed above sacrifice and bodily mortification, and opened to his followers the prospect, after this weary life, no more to be exposed to the ever-recurring pains of new birth, but released from all suffering to return to Nirvana, or nothingness.

His army, thus deprived of their general, retreated northward that night, leaving in Breslau only four battalions, who, the next day, surrendered the place by capitulation, one of the articles of which was, that they should not serve against the empress, or her allies, for two years.

Thus were we unexpectedly deprived of the most essential of our stores, for we knew Fort Chipewyan to be destitute of provisions, and that Mr.

This easy, computerised sex, the invention of our age, deprived a man of his main, eternal pleasure: the pleasure of playing the role of his life in front of each victim.

An ordinary girl, attractive in her no-nonsense way, with whom it had been demonstrated that I had so little in common that I felt a disconnectedness that had something uncanny about it, as if I were deprived all at once of the ability to sympathize, to comprehend, to invent, even to feel anything over and above a generalized confusion, as if I had committed an offence.

The exquisite avarice and cruelty of Domitian appear to have deprived the unfortunate of this last consolation, and it was still denied even by the clemency of the Antonines.

In the end, she had deprived him of her conversation by moving in with an older woman, a Romanian emigree who edited an intellectual journal.