English-French translations for poverty

• pauvreté
  La pauvreté alimente la pauvreté. Poverty naturally breeds poverty.
  Ceci entraînera une nouvelle pauvreté, une pauvreté qui sera connue sous le nom de pauvreté énergétique. This will cause new poverty, poverty that will be known as energy poverty.
  La "pauvreté en matière d'informations" affecte les mêmes personnes que la pauvreté sociale. 'Information poverty' hits the same people as social poverty.
• clochardiser

Definition of poverty

• The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
• Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness

Examples

• poverty of soil
• poverty of the blood
• poverty of spirit

Related words

• poverty-stricken
• antipoverty
• poverty line
• poverty trap
• poverty of the stimulus
• poverty among the elderly
• poverty in old age
• poverty threshold
• poverty risk