poverty
US: /ˈpɑvɝti/
UK: /pˈɒvəti/
UK: /pˈɒvəti/
English Vietnamese dictionary
poverty /'pɔvəti/
- danh từ
- sự nghèo nàn; cảnh nghèo nàn, cảnh bần cùng
- to be reduced to extreme poverty: lâm vào cảnh bần cùng cơ cực
- (nghĩa bóng) sự nghèo nàn, sự thiếu thốn; sự thấp kém, sự tồi tàn
- a great poverty of ideas: tình trạng hết sức nghèo nàn về tư tưởng
- sự nghèo nàn; cảnh nghèo nàn, cảnh bần cùng
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] the state of being poor: conditions of abject / extreme poverty + to alleviate / relieve poverty + Many elderly people live in poverty.
2 [U, sing.] a lack of sth; poor quality: There is a poverty of colour in her work.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 want, penury, indigence, insolvency, destitution, pauperism, impecuniousness, neediness, beggary:
Her childhood was spent in poverty.
2 scarcity, scarceness, want, need, lack, meagreness, insufficiency, shortage, dearth, paucity, inadequacy:
They criticized the poverty of talent among the current crop of actors.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
abject, absolute, extreme, grinding, severe | widespread | rural, urban
VERB + POVERTY
alleviate, combat, reduce | eliminate, eradicate
hoping to eradicate urban poverty
POVERTY + NOUN
trap
Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.
PREP.
in ~
Most of the population lives in grinding poverty.
| ~ among
the true extent of poverty among the unemployed
| ~ of
His work displays a poverty of imagination.
PHRASES
below/on the poverty line
families living on incomes below the poverty line
Concise English dictionary
poverties'pɑvə(r)tɪ /'pɒ-
noun
+the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
