pauperization
nounEtymology From pauperize + -ation.
1
The act or process of reducing to poverty.
- the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC: