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dire poverty

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meanings of direand poverty


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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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Examples of dire poverty


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Why is it that we are not able to discover just how many old people are living in direpoverty?
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In the days of the early strikes, the help that it gave to miners and others saved them from direpoverty and starvation.
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Most important of all, the survey revealed the direpoverty of 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 in direpoverty.
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More than 1 billion people live in direpoverty and it is time to focus our best efforts on them.
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All her working girls are in direpoverty and many are unemployed.
These allocations based on electoral considerations, like the ' targeted programmes ' against dire poverty promoted by neoliberals,4 8 were by nature short-term.
There was also increasing migration, clearly symptomatic of direpoverty.
Her father's business had been nationalized in the first wave of communist reforms, plunging the family into direpoverty.
We are not finding these old people who eke out an existence in direpoverty in 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 most direpoverty.
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There was a case recited to me of a young and attractive but uncultured woman who was in direpoverty.
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In many places, the status of widowhood confers on them a life sentence of direpoverty.
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At the other end there was a section living in direpoverty.
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Many such families are living in direpoverty.
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She lived for several years in direpoverty.
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Many millions of people have fallen into poverty, sometimes into direpoverty.
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One fifth of the world is in direpoverty, 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 most direpoverty and distress during the years which followed.
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Until we do that, their direpoverty and difficulties will be a matter of humiliation to all of us who do not have to suffer.
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