pauperization

noun

pauperization

noun

Etymology 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:

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