destitution 的定义
- lack of the means of subsistence; utter poverty.
- deprivation, lack, or absence.
destitution 近义词
indigence
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- For male subjects, “we found that the cash alone—which is quite a lot of money given their destitution—barely improves psychosocial well-being,” she says.
- Some of the densest clusters of destitution, home to what Booth uncharitably described as “vicious and semi-criminal” classes, are in the north of Lambeth, where modern studio flats cost north of a million pounds.
- Traditionally, this “instant divorce,” as it is often called, could banish women to a life of destitution, given many women’s struggles to own property in their own name or to find profitable work.
- Many of those factories are in low-wage countries around Asia where workers may live on the brink of destitution.
- As he notes, these benefits are key to countless families who would otherwise fall into destitution.
- Now she just wants the neo homeless to get back under a roof before they become acclimated to destitution.
- Artemis Stefanoudaki, a 38-year-old photographer, lives on the razor-thin margin between poverty and destitution.
- The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.
- Although bordering on the lowest state of destitution—and that is a remarkably low state in London!
- From every rank in society they had gravitated—but all were stamped with the same brand—destitution!
- All that was pitiable and miserable in the land, sunken alike by ignorance and destitution.
- An interesting feature of this case is the vagueness of the term "in need of relief," instead of "destitution."