edge of starvation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofedgeandstarvation
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edge
noun
uk/edʒ/us/edʒ/
the outer or furthest point ...
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starvation
noun[U]
uk/stɑːˈveɪ.ʃən/us/stɑːrˈveɪ.ʃən/
the state of having no food for a long period, often ...
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(Definition ofedgeandstarvationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These people often lived on theedgeofstarvation.
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In a period of increasing prices of food crops this perhaps pushed them further towards theedgeofstarvation.
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My answer is: ask the workers today, in pub or club or at street corner, who is driving them to theedgeofstarvation.
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The report recognises clearly that there is a connection with famine because, after all, many of these countries live on theedgeofstarvation.
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The £1,000 insurance has been taken away, and these people are left on theedgeofstarvation.
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They have lived on theedgeofstarvationfor centuries, and one might reasonably say that they are content to live at that level.
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Further, it calls for major international initiatives if the hundreds of millions of people on theedgeofstarvationare to survive.
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Instead, the economy is in chaos, with rampant inflation and unemployment and half a million of its people living on theedgeofstarvation, sustained only by world food aid.
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The second concerns the survival now for 800 million people who live literally on theedgeofstarvation, many of whom are dying from hunger at this moment.
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His economic situation keeps him and his family at theedgeofstarvation.
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They were on theedgeofstarvation.
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