Noun: pauperization ,po-pu-ru'zey-shun [N. Amer], ,po-pu-rI'zey-shun [Brit]
- The act of making someone poor
"The economic crisis led to the pauperization of many middle-class families";
- pauperisation [Brit], impoverishment
- A state of extreme poverty or destitution
"their pauperization appalled him";
- indigence, need, penury, pauperism
Derived forms: pauperizations
Type of: deprivation, immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty, privation
Encyclopedia: Pauperization