1. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
   - begging, mendicancy 
2. The state of being a beggar or mendicant
   - mendicancy, mendicity

Derived forms: beggaries

See also: beg

Type of: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, solicitation

Encyclopedia: Beggary

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