indigence

indigent | American Dictionary

indigent
adjective[ not gradable ]
 fmlus/ˈɪn·dɪ·dʒənt/
having no money or anything else of value:
an indigent family

indigent | Business English

indigent
adjective
 formaluk /ˈɪndɪdʒənt/us
very poor:
We are a non-profit agency that provides legal services to indigent clients.

Examples of indigent

indigent
If they are indigent, vulnerable, and ignorant, they are likely to be antecedently superstitious.
The patient has an acute medical problem and is indeed indigent.
This omission may have just reflected a personal inability to identify with the indigent.
The hospital has as its major missions the education of health professionals and caring for the indigent population of its area.
Solving uncompensated hospital care: targeting the indigent and the uninsured.
To ensure a representative sample, couples were recruited from birthing classes at hospitals serving indigent populations as well as those serving middle class families.
As has timelessly characterised debates about the causes of vagrancy and indigent poverty, commentators tend to favour either ' structural' or 'behavioural ' explanations (and strongly disagree).
The common law made children responsible for maintaining aged and indigent parents.
A patient has arrived at a medical institution that has an avowed mission of caring for the medically indigent.
The little they possess they freely distribute among the necessitous, without any other motive than that of pure compassion for the indigent.
For example, healthcare organizations are expected to provide patient care, and in some communities provide it to the whole community, including the indigent.
In addition, there was talk of assisting the elderly indigent (what utimately came to be known as the 1905 law).
To give an example, let us say the state is interested in protecting the economic interests of indigent people.
The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury.
Hoover felt the same way about provision of direct relief to the indigent.
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