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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as indigence.

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  • noun Indigence.

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  • noun Indigence.

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Examples

  • Fighting poverty, developing the local economy and creating job opportunities: assessing the work done by municipalities to stimulate the local economy and steps taken to deal with poverty through interventions such as indigency policies, extended publworks programme and use of local labour to do construction and maintenance of community infrastructure.

    ANC GAUTENG PROVINCE GETS READY FOR THE NEXT TERM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT! 2005

  • Such things as homelessness and medical indigency were incomprehensible to Hungarians then.

    W. Hunter Roberts: Notes of a Temporary Ex-Pat #3 2010

  • Such things as homelessness and medical indigency were incomprehensible to Hungarians then.

    Notes of a Temporary Ex-Pat #3 2010

  • Many commenters on the Spectator demonstrate moral indigency with regard to race.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The only problem with that exemption, like the indigency exception, is that it's kind of gratuitively burdensome in that you have to go down to the county seat to vote every time; you can't vote in your polling place because you have to fill out this affidavit every time you vote.

    Voter ID Oral Argument Includes Exchange On Religious Objectors Howard M. Friedman 2008

  • Now, before I go any further, because there are fines that can be imposed, and I'm going to need to address appellate rights in just a minute, and so I will be asking about the indigency or non-indigency status of the defendant.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008 2008

  • It said the council only targetted "those who can pay but won't," and "has an indigency policy and free basic services to assist those who cannot pay".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • These slogans of a brave new world cannot unfortunately hide the crude fact: homeless people, in terrible indigency, in the street of Caracas, are more numerous than ever, to the point of literally nesting wherever they can, even under highway bridges if necessary.

    04/16/2006 - 04/23/2006 2006

  • These slogans of a brave new world cannot unfortunately hide the crude fact: homeless people, in terrible indigency, in the street of Caracas, are more numerous than ever, to the point of literally nesting wherever they can, even under highway bridges if necessary.

    Driving through Caracas streets: slogans and a reality check 2006

  • KARAS: Well, that ` s an interesting point, because Scott Peterson did declare indigency in the middle of the trial, and his attorney, Mark Geragos, Pat Harris, went to Modesto in the middle of the trial to seek funds to pay their defense experts.

    CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006 2006

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