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POVERTY LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poverty line mean?
• POVERTY LINE (noun)
The noun POVERTY LINE has 1 sense:
1. a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
Familiarity information: POVERTY LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A level of personal income defining the state of poverty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
poverty level; poverty line
Hypernyms ("poverty line" is a kind of...):
personal income (the income received by a single individual)
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