abject poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabjectandpoverty
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abject
adjective
uk/ˈæb.dʒekt/us/ˈæb.dʒekt/
the state of being extremely unhappy, poor, ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofabjectandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We live in a world of growing material wealth, yet the outrage ofabjectpovertypersists.
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One in five people live inabjectpoverty, and one in three in relative poverty.
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There are poor pensioners who, without the minimum income guarantee, would find themselves inabjectpoverty.
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We should continually remind ourselves that one in five of the 6 billion people who share the planet still live inabjectpoverty.
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That is a substantial number of people in some degree of poverty, some of them inabjectpoverty.
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The dependence on imports and therefore on production for exports, and theabjectpovertyof most of the population continued.
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But in the 1790s such images bore little relationship to the reality ofabjectpovertysuffered by most rural labourers.
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Few labourers could secure social justice to relieveabjectpoverty.
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Likewise, the past spoke to the present of the need to be vigilant aboutabjectpoverty, welfare injustices, and basic human needs.
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That many had neither land nor kin which could support them, and that wages often condemned workers toabjectpoverty, was not seriously considered.
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Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out ofabjectpoverty.
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Without husbands most of the health retirees would live inabjectpovertyby any standard.
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As may be expected, the most dramatic accounts ofabjectpovertyare written by women who grew up in the late nineteenth century.
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We have seen children and adults living inabjectpoverty.
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That does not matter; in the end, my constituents will still live inabjectpoverty.
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More people than ever before, one billion, live inabjectpoverty.
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That is a total of 494.8 million women inabjectpoverty.
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If we are not careful,abjectpovertywill increase, not decrease.
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As she constantly says, there is nothing automatic about growth leading to the diminution ofabjectpovertyin any country.
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