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noun
Lack of money: poverty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: pennilessness, impoverishment, penury, brokeness, beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, mendicancy, mendicity, misery, neediness, pauperism, poverty, privation, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A (real or hypothetical) state in which economic activity happens without money as the medium of exchange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From moneyless + -ness.
