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Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Meaning of "impoverishment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPOVERISHMENT

impoverishment  [ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPOVERISHMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Impoverishment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IMPOVERISHMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

impoverishment

Poverty

Poverty is general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs, which commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. After the industrial revolution, mass production in factories made production goods increasingly less expensive and more accessible. Of more importance is the modernization of agriculture, such as fertilizers, to provide enough yield to feed the population. The supply of basic needs can be restricted by constraints on government services such as corruption, tax avoidance, debt and loan conditionalities and by the brain drain of health care and educational professionals. Strategies of increasing income to make basic needs more affordable typically include welfare, economic freedoms, and providing financial services. Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for many international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. The World Bank estimated 1.

Definition of impoverishment in the English dictionary

The definition of impoverishment in the dictionary is the act or process of making poor or diminishing the quality of. Other definition of impoverishment is the act or process of depriving of fertility.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPOVERISHMENT


abolishment
əˈbɒlɪʃmənt
accomplishment
əˈkɒmplɪʃmənt
admonishment
ədˈmɒnɪʃmənt
astonishment
əˈstɒnɪʃmənt
banishment
ˈbænɪʃmənt
cherishment
ˈtʃerɪʃmənt
diminishment
dɪˈmɪnɪʃmənt
disestablishment
ˌdɪsɪsˈtæblɪʃmənt
embellishment
ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt
empoverishment
ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃmənt
establishment
ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt
garnishment
ˈɡɑːnɪʃmənt
nourishment
ˈnʌrɪʃmənt
punishment
ˈpʌnɪʃmənt
ravishment
ˈrævɪʃmənt
re-establishment
ˌriːɪsˈtæblɪʃmənt
refurbishment
riːˈfɜːbɪʃmənt
relinquishment
rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃmənt
replenishment
rɪˈplenɪʃmənt
undernourishment
ˌʌndəˈnʌrɪʃmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPOVERISHMENT

impostumate
impostumation
impostume
imposture
imposturous
impot
impotence
impotency
impotent
impotently
impotentness
impound
impoundable
impoundage
impounder
impoundment
impoverish
impoverished
impoverisher
impower

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPOVERISHMENT

advertisement
anti-Establishment
attachment
bashment
capital punishment
catchment
corporal punishment
detachment
encashment
encroachment
enrichment
entrenchment
impeachment
parchment
reattachment
refreshment
research establishment
retrenchment
shower attachment
the Establishment
writ of attachment

Synonyms and antonyms of impoverishment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «impoverishment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPOVERISHMENT

Find out the translation of impoverishment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of impoverishment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «impoverishment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贫困
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

empobrecimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

impoverishment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दरिद्रता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإفقار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обнищание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

empobrecimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দারিদ্রতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

appauvrissement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemiskinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verarmung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

窮乏化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빈곤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Impoverishment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hao mòn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வறிய நிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्बलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fakirleşme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impoverimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zubożenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зубожіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sărăcire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξαθλίωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verarming
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utarmning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utarming
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of impoverishment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOVERISHMENT»

The term «impoverishment» is regularly used and occupies the 101.422 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPOVERISHMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «impoverishment» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «impoverishment» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about impoverishment

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QUOTES WITH «IMPOVERISHMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word impoverishment.
1
Edward McKendree Bounds
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPOVERISHMENT»

Discover the use of impoverishment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to impoverishment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding Impoverishment: The Consequences of ...
This important volume addresses the issues and shows just how serious the situation is. Christopher McDowell is Research Officer, Refugee Studies Programme, International Development Centre, University of Oxford.
Chris McDowell, 1996
2
The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and ...
The experience of the Philippines from the 1960s to the 1980s vividly illustrates the interplay between wealth and power in the course of economic development.
James K. Boyce, 1993
3
Arts of impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais
This book shows us how such crippling moves may signal a profoundly original-and profoundly antimodernist-renunciation of art's authority.
Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit, 1993
4
Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental ...
Comprehensive and devastating critique of the effects of World Bank policies on the societies and environments of the countries it operates in.
Bruce Rich, 1994
5
Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika ...
In Hard Times, economist William Moskoff takes a closer look at the objective and subjective experience of economic decline as it affected ordinary citizens.
William Moskoff, 1993
6
The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: ...
This book advances a powerful critique of neoliberalised education - privatization, marketisation, new public managerialism, increasing control and surveillance of schools and colleges - in eight of the rich countries of the world: USA, ...
Dave Hill, 2010
7
Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?: Reforming ...
This volume provides a new impetus to search for practical solutions to forced displacement.
Michael M. Cernea, Hari Mohan Mathur, 2008
8
People: From Impoverishment to Empowerment
This remarkable book assembles the thinking of more than 50 distinguished national and international policymakers, practitioners, academics, leaders of public and private enterprises, and the media.
Üner Kirdar, Leonard Solomon Silk, 1995
9
Development projects and impoverishment risks: resettling ...
Includes statistics.
Hari Mohan Mathur, David Marsden, 1998
10
The Impoverishment of Nations: The issues facing the post ...
Early in 2007 Leigh Skene warned of the danger of a meltdown in global markets.
Leigh Skene, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPOVERISHMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term impoverishment is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jürgen Habermas's verdict on the EU/Greece debt deal – full …
... bankers exploit workers, keeping working conditions harsh, spreading impoverishment, fanning nationalism and seeding revolt and warfare. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Metered taxi sector takes wrong turn in Uber row | Columnists | BDlive
President Jacob Zuma claims that the welfare state has alleviated impoverishment; simultaneously he bemoans South Africans as "lazy". «BDlive, Jul 15»
3
Bill Carmichael: Meet the new Eurosceptics – on the Left - Yorkshire …
The appalling vindictiveness that has characterised the EU's treatment of Greece, and the deliberate impoverishment of that country because its ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
4
The destructive legacy of racist US housing policy - Equal Times
When industry also left inner cities and black workers couldn't get to good suburban jobs, ghetto impoverishment grew. The FHA refused to ... «Equal Times, Jul 15»
5
Collective project, radical vision: Ericson Acosta's Mula Tarima …
His take on people empowerment forces his readers out of the obsessive narrowness and impoverishment of the dominant representation of ... «Bulatlat, Jul 15»
6
Local communities beating back suicide - Yahoo7
"They've been degraded with the stripping of services and infrastructure, which reduces social health, which leads to impoverishment, that ... «Yahoo7 News, Jul 15»
7
Further Devaluation Of Naira; We'll Not Bow To Pressure- CBN …
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae ... «The Streetjournal, Jul 15»
8
N413.7bn Bailout: Rep Drags Buhari To Court … - the street journal
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae ... «The Streetjournal, Jul 15»
9
Why Spain's Prime Minister Was Handed a Copy of a John Maynard …
Keynes wrote: "If we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare say, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long the ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
10
Sandra Oh and Andre De Shields Among Lineup for Victory …
... Fellow André De Shields in this riveting solo-performance as we follow this adventure from inner city impoverishment to self-actualization. «Broadway World, Jul 15»

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