grinding poverty

collocation in English

meaningsofgrindingandpoverty

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grinding
adjective
uk
/ˈɡraɪn.dɪŋ/
us
/ˈɡraɪn.dɪŋ/
a situation in which people are extremely poor over a ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/
us
/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofgrindingandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Firing older, less-productive workers, another option, would also have violated the segmentalist's promise to loyal workers that they would not to have to facegrindingpovertyin retirement.
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There must no longer be vaunted luxury in juxtaposition togrindingpoverty.
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Because of changes to the benefit system, those receiving benefits were pushed deeper intogrindingpoverty.
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However, our memory of that unhappy regime is one ofgrindingpovertyand no growth.
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It isgrindingpoverty, it is having no place in life, it is being persecuted and starved—that is what demoralises.
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He might have said something much more apt, thatgrindingpovertyis a shame and a crime in any social order.
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Large numbers of people are on the move because of war, persecution, famine or justgrindingpoverty.
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There are 300 million totally unemployed, ingrindingpoverty.
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We cannot alleviate awful,grindingpoverty; no sticking plaster will help.
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Many people are existing in unrelieved,grindingpoverty.
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But people have learnt from the forest people that thegrindingpovertyexists in the forests as well as in the urban areas.
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I find little evidence ofgrindingpovertyamong my poorest pensioners.
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They are subjected togrindingpoverty, and to unemployment from time to time; they live in evil environments.
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There is no excuse for thatgrindingpoverty.
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Ten years ofgrindingpovertyand of oppression of soul have taught us, we hope, to feel for fellow sufferers the world over.
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She knew exactly whatgrindingpovertywas, but she also knew what pride was about.
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They have no escape fromgrindingpovertyday in and day out.
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They are living in an area where for centuries there has been some of the mostgrindingpovertyanywhere in the world.
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Therefore, by any stretch of the imagination, it is an area of high unemployment and enormous,grindingpoverty.
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Men and women want to get away from thisgrindingpoverty.
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