destitution
Noun
Meaning
The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
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Hart 1999, p. 227. Finally, the British tactic of blowing up the homes of IRA members had the effect of discouraging many farmers from joining the struggle as the destruction of the family farm could easily reduce a farmer and his family to destitution.
Harris 2012, p.174 which accounted for the deaths of up to 3,500,000 Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Maronite Christians, and the deportation and destitution of many more.
High Court judge ordered the Home Office to cancel an entire charter flight to Spain on the grounds that it would place asylum seekers on board at risk of destitution or street homelessness.
Factors ranging from extreme poverty, forced migration, lack of opportunities for “decent work,” destitution, chronic illness, family conflict, and caste- and gender-based discrimination force the marginalised into begging.
IN NOVEMBER India’s government perpetrated an unprecedented act that is not only damaging its economy and threatening destitution to countless millions of its already poor citizens but also breathtaking in its immorality.
In addition to being a cause of poverty in rural areas, the private ownership of land has also brought about the decline and destitution of rural economies in some Latin American countries.