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The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: economics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: poverty level
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: personal income
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
yoxsulluq həddi
— threshold of poverty
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Chinese Mandarin:
貧困線 /贫困线
(pínkùnxiàn)
— threshold of poverty
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Czech:
práh chudoby
— threshold of poverty
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Dutch:
armoedegrens
— threshold of poverty
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Esperanto:
linio de malriĉeco
— threshold of poverty
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Estonian:
vaesuspiir
— threshold of poverty
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Finnish:
köyhyysraja
— threshold of poverty
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French:
seuil de pauvreté
— threshold of poverty
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German:
Armutsgrenze
— threshold of poverty
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Hungarian:
szegénységi küszöb
— threshold of poverty
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Italian:
soglia di povertà
— threshold of poverty
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Persian:
خط فقر
(xatt-e faqr)
— threshold of poverty
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Polish:
granica ubóstwa
— threshold of poverty
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Portuguese:
linha de pobreza
— threshold of poverty
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Russian:
черта́ бе́дности
(čertá bédnosti)
— threshold of poverty
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Slovak:
hranica chudoby
— threshold of poverty
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Spanish:
línea de pobreza
— threshold of poverty
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Spanish:
umbral de pobreza
— threshold of poverty
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Swedish:
fattigdomsgräns
— threshold of poverty
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Tamil:
வறுமைக்கோடு
(vaṟumaikkōṭu)
— threshold of poverty
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Turkish:
yoksulluk sınırı
— threshold of poverty
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Ukrainian:
межа бідності
(meža bidnosti)
— threshold of poverty