pauperization

2 definitions found

pauperization - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pauperization \Pau`per*i*za"tion\, n.
     The act or process of reducing to pauperism. --C. Kingsley.
     [1913 Webster]

pauperization - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pauperization
      n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
           appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
           homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism,
           pauperization]
      2: the act of making someone poor [syn: pauperization,
         pauperisation, impoverishment]