Collocations for "poverty"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "poverty" in context.
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poverty
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- in [abject, severe, dire] poverty
- [world, national, global] poverty
- [eliminate, fight, combat, prevent, cut, reduce] poverty
- [agreements, measures, aid] to [eliminate] poverty
- [the families, the refugees, millions] are living in poverty
- [has, are condemned to] a life of poverty
- the [effects, consequences, hardships] of poverty
- poverty in [America, the country, the world]
- the poverty of my [skills, knowledge, imagination]
- a poverty of [rain, supplies, fuel]
- poverty [aid, reduction, levels]
- living (just) [under, above, on] the poverty line
'poverty' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
a world of sth
- appalling
- below
- blight
- born
- claw
- crest
- curse
- cycle
- defeat
- dire
- distress
- doom
- doomed
- endless
- extreme
- fate
- fight
- film
- grinding
- guideline
- harden
- hardship
- heritage
- hunger
- inequality
- march
- margin
- misery
- monk
- population
- primary
- reach
- rear
- reconcile
- shelter
- speak
- stance
- stand
- stem
- struggle
- suffering
- transition
- vicious
- war
- widespread
- youngster