designed or directed to reduce or abolish poverty (used esp. in describing certain governmental programs)
Word origin
[anti- + poverty]anti- is a prefix meaning “against,” “opposite of,” “antiparticle of,” used in the formationof compound words (anticline); used freely in combination with elements of any origin (antibody; antifreeze; antiknock; antilepton)
Examples of 'antipoverty' in a sentence
antipoverty
That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The money he saved would have been put into antipoverty programmes.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
In the last financial year, it sold goods worth 80m and made 25m profit which went into its antipoverty programmes.