Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a pauper of; impoverish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to pauperism; make a pauper of. Also spelled
pauperise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to pauperism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make someone a
pauper ; toimpoverish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb reduce to beggary
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Examples
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It's "Right to Work" laws which gave working class people no rights whatsoever are now being advanced by mid-Western governors whose basic aim under the pretext of "fiscal responsibility," is to pauperize an increasing proportion of their constituents by eliminating collective bargaining.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Who Really Won the Civil War? Joel Shatzky 2011
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It's "Right to Work" laws which gave working class people no rights whatsoever are now being advanced by mid-Western governors whose basic aim under the pretext of "fiscal responsibility," is to pauperize an increasing proportion of their constituents by eliminating collective bargaining.
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Who Really Won the Civil War? Joel Shatzky 2011
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A simple example of how this economy is continuing to pauperize a larger proportion of its citizenry is the disappearance of meaningful interest rates on savings, a traditional source of income for those with the resources to put aside a portion of their earnings into CDs and other interest-bearing instruments.
Joel Shatzky: A Tale of Two Nations Joel Shatzky 2011
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A simple example of how this economy is continuing to pauperize a larger proportion of its citizenry is the disappearance of meaningful interest rates on savings, a traditional source of income for those with the resources to put aside a portion of their earnings into CDs and other interest-bearing instruments.
Joel Shatzky: A Tale of Two Nations Joel Shatzky 2011
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But surely there exist better ways to do this than for governments to pauperize car manufacturers, or to insist we all drive about in golf cart equivalents that are affordable only for the rich.
The EU Is Killing Europe's Auto Makers Neil Winton 2010
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But surely there exist better ways to do this than for governments to pauperize car manufacturers, or to insist we all drive about in golf cart equivalents that are affordable only for the rich.
The EU Is Killing Europe's Auto Makers Neil Winton 2010
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But surely there exist better ways to do this than for governments to pauperize car manufacturers, or to insist we all drive about in golf cart equivalents that are affordable only for the rich.
The EU Is Killing Europe's Auto Makers Neil Winton 2010
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But surely there exist better ways to do this than for governments to pauperize car manufacturers, or to insist we all drive about in golf cart equivalents that are affordable only for the rich.
The EU Is Killing Europe's Auto Makers Neil Winton 2010
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Eight years of economic and fiscal policies designed to pauperize them and redistribute wealth upwards was more than enough, and even Obama's hint of "hope" was better than McCain's iron clad guarantee of four more years of the Bush economic miracle.
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Eight years of economic and fiscal policies designed to pauperize them and redistribute wealth upwards was more than enough, and even Oba ...
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