mass poverty

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandpoverty

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming 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 ofmassandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Masspovertygoes hand in hand with an indecent privilege and wealth of the few.
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Higher spending is also urged to reducemasspoverty.
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Discussion of those benefits takes place amid widely canvassed allegations ofmasspovertyand mass unemployment.
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It is not the grindingmasspovertythat we once saw and can still see in too many other countries.
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You are not dealing here merely with sporadic poverty due to the defects of the individual, but with deep-seatedmasspoverty.
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For thirteen or fourteen years we have had no mass unemployment, but we have undoubtedly still gotmasspoverty.
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We have experienced the pain of war, famine,masspovertyand massive population upheavals.
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Her fledgeling multi-racial democracy can thrive only once decades ofmasspovertyare progressively reversed.
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Masspoverty, therefore, which exists today must first of all be eliminated.
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How can we reconcile this and much other reliable information, with allegations ofmasspoverty?
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But insistence on universal benefits and allegations ofmasspovertyand unemployment divert attention and resources from helping the distressed.
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Debt cancellation would release funds to tacklemasspovertyand meet the millennium development goals.
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Making the labour market more adaptable and flexible is leading tomasspoverty.
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It was amasspoverty, while today we have poverty in the midst of plenty.
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Then again,masspovertyand economic exploitation are potential causes of violent eruptions; as is the absence of basic human rights.
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That is the reemergence ofmasspovertyin our society on a magnitude and with an intensity to which most people believed no civilised society would ever again decline.
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I would not go so far as some have gone in suggesting that themasspovertyis as bad as it was twenty-five or fifty years ago.
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That was real poverty,masspoverty.
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It takes six years for debt relief to come through, which is hardly urgent action in the face ofmasspoverty, health services that do not exist and widespread illiteracy.
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That will have considerable economic and social effects on societies that already suffermasspoverty and death from hunger or from simple diseases related to undernourishment.
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