What is the meaning of Poverty?

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(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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