beggary
/ˈbɛɡəri
/noun [mass noun]
A state of extreme poverty: they have no benefits to stand between them and beggary...
- The next theme was apt to the problems plaguing every developing country - poverty and beggary.
- I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
- War widows were reduced to beggary and young children employed as metalworkers.
Synonyms
poverty, penury, destitution, ruin, ruination, indigence, impecuniousness, impoverishment, need, neediness, privation, want, hardship, distress, difficulties, dire straits, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances, mendicancy, vagrancy;
bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, debt, indebtedness, financial ruin;
British administration, receivership;
Economics primary poverty
rare pauperdom, pauperism, mendicity
