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food-insecure

food-insecure adjective: lacking food security.

Adjective

food-insecure (comparative more food-insecure, superlative most food-insecure)

  1. Lacking food security.

Forms of food-insecure

comparativemore food-insecure
superlativemost food-insecure

Questions about food-insecure

What does food-insecure mean?
Food-insecure means lacking food security.
What part of speech is food-insecure?
Food-insecure is an adjective.

Words near food-insecure in the dictionary

  1. food-derived illness
  2. food-derived illnesses
  3. food-fall
  4. food-falls
  5. food-grade
  6. food-insecure
  7. food-literate
  8. food-secure
  9. food-to-go
  10. food-truck
  11. food-trucks

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