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impoverishment /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃm(ə)nt /noun [mass noun]1The process of becoming poor; loss of wealth: fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine...- The colonial connection appears to be more likely a route to impoverishment than riches.
- For the majority of blacks, the New Deal at first meant further impoverishment.
- The consequence of a lack of free trade could be a relative impoverishment of the working population.
1.1The process of losing or being deprived of strength or vitality; deterioration: this caused substantial impoverishment of the soil the impoverishment of language...- To build quickly or formulaically generally entails the debasement of materials, with a resulting sensory impoverishment.
- The simplification of labour refers to an impoverishment of its quality.
- The environmental group is campaigning for urgent action to put a stop to this wholesale impoverishment of our native flora.
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