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poverty line en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
   • America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short. 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

Forms

Relateds

poverty trap · breadline · living wage · minimum wage

Translations (22)

sv fattigdomsgräns (threshold of poverty) · cs práh chudoby (threshold of poverty) · it soglia di povertà (threshold of poverty) · pt linha de pobreza (threshold of poverty) · uk межа бідності (threshold of poverty) · ta வறுமைக்கோடு (threshold of poverty) · et vaesuspiir (threshold of poverty) · nl armoedegrens (threshold of poverty) · es umbral de pobreza (threshold of poverty) · tr yoksulluk sınırı (threshold of poverty) · eo linio de malriĉeco (threshold of poverty) · fa خط فقر (threshold of poverty) · hu szegénységi küszöb (threshold of poverty) · az yoxsulluq həddi (threshold of poverty) · pl granica ubóstwa (threshold of poverty) · fr seuil de pauvreté (threshold of poverty) · es línea de pobreza (threshold of poverty) · fi köyhyysraja (threshold of poverty) · ru черта́ бе́дности (threshold of poverty) · sk hranica chudoby (threshold of poverty) · cmn 貧困線 /贫困线 (threshold of poverty) · de Armutsgrenze (threshold of poverty)