Pauperization
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process of reducing to poverty. countable, uncountable
"the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property"
- 2 the act of making someone poor wordnet
- 3 a state of extreme poverty or destitution wordnet
Example
More examples"the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property"
Etymology
From pauperize + -ation.