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Pauperization

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

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pauperization

n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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pauperization
  1. n. 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]