French-English translations for indigent

• indigent
• destitute
• needy
  The programme confirms that the EU feels responsible for its most needy citizens. Le programme confirme que l'Union européenne se sent responsable de ses citoyens les plus indigents.
  Concerted international intervention is thus urgently needed in order to step up aid to the most needy, because we are dealing with millions of life and death cases here. Une intervention internationale concertée est nécessaire d'urgence pour accélérer l'apport de l'aide aux plus indigents, parce qu'il y va de la vie de millions de personnes.
  Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
• pauper
• penurious
  The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
  The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
  The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
• poor
  A country containing all the poor in the EU would have the same number of inhabitants as Germany. Un pays qui rassemblerait tous les indigents de l'UE compterait autant d'habitants que l'Allemagne.
  It is the lack of globalisation and participation in the global economy that produces indigent people, poor living conditions and undignified working environments. C’est l’absence de mondialisation et de participation à l’économie mondiale qui produit des populations indigentes, des conditions de vie médiocres et des conditions de travail indignes.
  We were so poor that we couldnt afford shoes

Related words

• indigène
• indigence
• indigénisme
• indigénocide
• indigéniste
• mot indigène
• millet indigène
• géographie indigène