dire poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdireandpoverty
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dire
adjective
uk/daɪər/us/daɪr/
very serious ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofdireandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Why is it that we are not able to discover just how many old people are living indirepoverty?
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In the days of the early strikes, the help that it gave to miners and others saved them fromdirepovertyand starvation.
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Most important of all, the survey revealed thedirepovertyof so many of our fellow countrymen.
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Even if he does review the capital allowance, those pensioners will still be below income support levels and living indirepoverty.
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More than 1 billion people live indirepovertyand it is time to focus our best efforts on them.
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All her working girls are indirepovertyand many are unemployed.
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These allocations based on electoral considerations, like the ' targeted programmes ' againstdirepoverty promoted by neoliberals,4 8 were by nature short-term.
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There was also increasing migration, clearly symptomatic ofdirepoverty.
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Her father's business had been nationalized in the first wave of communist reforms, plunging the family intodirepoverty.
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We are not finding these old people who eke out an existence indirepovertyin this year 1964.
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Those people will therefore not be eligible for the minimum income guarantee, but will still be living in the mostdirepoverty.
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There was a case recited to me of a young and attractive but uncultured woman who was indirepoverty.
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In many places, the status of widowhood confers on them a life sentence ofdirepoverty.
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At the other end there was a section living indirepoverty.
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Many such families are living indirepoverty.
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She lived for several years indirepoverty.
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Many millions of people have fallen into poverty, sometimes intodirepoverty.
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One fifth of the world is indirepoverty, with people living on less than $1 a day.
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I was ashamed of the way in which they were allowed to sink into the mostdirepovertyand distress during the years which followed.
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Until we do that, theirdirepovertyand difficulties will be a matter of humiliation to all of us who do not have to suffer.
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