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immiseration /ɪˌmɪzəˈreɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]Economic impoverishment: rapid modernization had an impact on the level of urban immiseration...- He predicted the growing immiseration and impoverishment of the working class in capitalist societies.
- Similar, if less sanguine, interpretations can be constructed around globalization, environmental agendas, and economic immiseration in the South.
- Firstly, the bulk of the population, which has long been suffering from neo-liberal policies and increasing immiseration, is now open to real social and economic alternatives.
Derivativesimmiserate verb ...- Perhaps it's also a sly reference to the level of insanity required to embark on such a quixotic venture, one notorious for hobbling, immiserating and occasionally impoverishing even the proudest, toughest egos Hollywood has to offer.
- This a-historical machine will exploit and immiserate people on our behalf and exonerate us in the process.
- It is a human catastrophe that continues to immiserate and impoverish millions of people.
Origin1940s: translating German Verelendung. |