Poverty

Definition

poverty /'povǝti/ n ၁။ [U] ဆင္းရဲျခင္း။ live in poverty ❍ conditions of abject/ grinding poverty. ၂။ [U,sing] ေခါင္းပါးမႈ။ His work displays (a) poverty of imagination. ၃။ [U] ညံ့ဖ်င္းမႈ။ ႏံုခ်ာမႈ။ the poverty of the soil ❍ They were recognizable by the poverty of their dress. ❏ the poverty line n [sing] အေျခခံ စားဝတ္ေနမႈအတြက္ အနည္းဆံုး လိုအပ္ေသာ ဝင္ေငြ။ live below the poverty line. ❏ poverty-stricken adj ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတေသာ။ ဆင္းရဲျခင္း ႏိွပ္စက္ေသာ။ poverty-stricken families/ areas. ❏ poverty trap n (usu sing ) (အလုပ္ရ၍ ဝင္ေငြရိွလာသည့္ အခါတြင္လည္း လူမႈဖူလံုေရး ေထာက္ပံ့မႈ ေလ်ာ့နည္းကာ ဝင္ေငြခြန္ တိုးလာမႈ ေၾကာင့္မကြၽတ္လြတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ) ဆင္းရဲျခင္းဝဲဩဃ။

Examples

1. There are many areas where the problems of poverty and unemployment still persist.
2. [in poverty] : Half the world’s population is living in poverty.
3. [poverty of] : The proposals display a worrying poverty of ideas.