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Deprivation
ˌdɛprɪˈveɪʃn
Deprivation definitions
noun
deprivation
deprivations
- the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society
"low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation"
poverty impoverishment penury privation hardship destitution need neediness want distress financial distress indigence pauperdom beggary ruin- the lack or denial of something considered to be a necessity
"sleep deprivation"
- the action of depriving someone of office, especially an ecclesiastical office