| 单词 | new poor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnew poor new poor n. (usually with the) recently impoverished people, regarded as a class (cf. new rich n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > recently poor person > collectively nouveau poor1916 new poor1920 1920 Amer. Econ. Rev. 10 155 These [price] fluctuations have..caused wasteful struggles, encouraged extravagance among some, and created the class of ‘new poor’. 1969 Triumph (U.S.) Mar. 25/1 The new poor, the misplaced workers, who are a by-product of our technology. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 31/6 He has been robbing the new-poor blind and passing much of the loot to the new-rich. < as lemmas |
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