单词 | pauperizer |
释义 | pauperizern. Now rare. A person who or thing which pauperizes someone. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > becoming or making poor > one who or that which impoverishes impoverisher1628 beggarer1630 pauperizer1826 1826 Sheffield Independent 18 Mar. Your petitioner..would meet death, rather than become that greatest of all curses under heaven, a pauperizer of the industrious. 1842 A. Rodger Stray Leaves 11 The great pauperizer, wha squeezed you sae sma'. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 60 Arabi drove out these pauperizers of the people. 1909 Econ. Jrnl. 19 619 Among laundry-workers, laziness and parasitism among the husbands is the great pauperiser. 2016 C. Osborne tr. B. Brecht Business Affairs Mr Julius Caesar iii. 151 The great Democrat remembered ‘the despair of the pauperized’. What else could he have blackmailed the pauperizers with? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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