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Pauperization

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the act of making someone poor wordnet
  3. 3
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution wordnet

Etymology

From pauperize + -ation.

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