Skip to main content

indigent

/in-di-juhnt/US // ˈɪn dɪ dʒənt //UK // (ˈɪndɪdʒənt) //

穷困的,穷困潦倒,贫穷的,穷人

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
    • : Archaic. deficient in what is requisite.destitute.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is indigent.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Each month, the agency sends lists of the eligible attorneys on each panel to the courthouses so clerks can base assignments for indigent defendants on them.

  • In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for indigents, the people who had nothing and no one.

  • Hays County has a contract with the hospital to provide the county’s indigent care.

  • No one in the county’s indigent health care program was looking to revamp the system or to invest in telehealth at the time, he said.

  • He said his company’s services, which included remote patient monitoring, could ultimately reduce the county’s indigent care costs.

  • The lawyers of ArchCity Defenders specialize in representing the indigent and the homeless.

  • In addition, many Texans believed that the role of helping the indigent belonged to the church.

  • She emphasizes that the indigent detainees who will benefit from this program are not all undocumented.

  • For instance, minority doctors are more likely to go on to work among indigent or underserved populations after medical school.

  • Herrera is seeking to have the city reimbursed for its care of indigent patients it claims were dumped there by Nevada.

  • We make fast the doors of our lighted houses against the indigent and the hungry.

  • The indigent Jakut exchanges his most valuable furs and skins for a few ounces of the "Circassian weed."

  • And to make good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in a servile or indigent fashion, but in some free and plentiful manner.

  • John Porteous was born of indigent parents near the city of Edinburgh; and he served his time as an apprentice to a tailor.

  • Rail not at a guest, nor from thy gate thrust him; treat well the indigent; they will speak well of thee.

indigent - EE Dictionary | EE Dictionary